Poetry Quiz Structure

Finish the sentence.

Poetry attempts to stir a reader's...

• reading skills

• thoughts and emotions

• imagination

Poetry is divided into...

• Paragraphs

• Chapters

• Stanzas

• Sentences

The last two lines in this poem are called a...

• Refrain

• Stanza

• Octave

• Onomatopoeia

What is the structure used in this poem?

• Octave

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Alliteration

What rhyme scheme does this poem use?

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABBA

• ABCD

What rhyme scheme does this poem use?

• AABBA

• ABABA

• ABCDE

• ABCAB

A couplet is a stanza with 8 lines.

• True

• False

What figurative language is used in line 4 of this poem?

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

What type of figurative language can be seen in this poem?

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tonya was relaxing with a magazine when her father walked in, looking perturbed and sounding annoyed, too. What words give you clues to the meaning of perturbed?

• can you help me

• her father walked in 

• sounding annoyed, too

• relaxing with a magazine