Poetry Quiz

The rhyme scheme is the

• units of stressed syllables at the end of the lines

• nonrhyming stanzas at the end of the lines

• measures of stressed and unstressed syllables at the end of the lines

• pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines

Lines are grouped in

• stanzas

• alphabetical order

• random order

• segments

Free verse poems

• do not follow a fixed pattern

• are always about nature

• have a rhyme scheme of 5-7-5

• follow a fixed pattern

The musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables

is called

• rhyme

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Imagery appeals to the ______________.

• brain
• senses
• crazy people
• memory

Will she read these cheap leaflets

• Assonance

• Alliteration

What poetic technique can we see in this line from the poem: "We’ve braved the belly of the beast."?

• Alliteration

• Onomatopia

• Rhyme

• Imagery

What is poetry?

• Where the sound and meaning of words are combined to express feelings, thoughts, and ideas.

• Words and paragraphs with a main idea for each.

• Choosing words to fit the needs of the author and his/her audience

True. False. Repetition strengthens feelings, ideas, and mood in a poem.

• True

• False

Which of the following does not use figurative language?

• "The fog comes on little cat feet."

• "Fog appeared in the harbor and city."

• "The frog sat like a bump on a log in the fog."

• "Fog fell over the lake like a ghostly waterfall."