Poetry Terms Quiz

A ______ in a poem means words that are written in a row.

• Stanza
• Line
• Alliteration
• Meter

A ________ is a group of __________.

• line, stanzas
• stanza, line
• alliteration, meter
• meter, alliteration

Which of the following is an example of an idiom?

• Clap! Clap!
• The hand of the clock punched the foot of the bed.
• You are driving me up the wall.

Lazy leaping lizards like licking luscious lollipops - this is an example of...

• Poetry
• Assonance
• Personification
• Alliteration

__________ is when an author repeats a word, phrase, or sentence to help create rhythm, or get across an idea, or even to maintain a certain pattern.

• Meter
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition
• Stanza

________ is when a word imitates a sound.

• Meter
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition
• Line

________ is when words are close together and have the same first consonant sound.

• Alliteration
• End rhyme
• Internal rhyme
• Assonance

______ occurs when words at the end of lines rhyme with each other.

• Internal rhyme

• Assonance

• Consonance

• End rhyme

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is called ______________

• rhyme
• meter
• idiom
• repitition

Looking at the words that are UNDERLINED, this is an example of ____________________________

• End rhyme
• Alliteration
• Onomatopeia
• Internal rhyme