Poetry Post-Lecture Quiz

Poems emphasize language's ​ (a)   qualities.

• musical
• technical

Match the following poetic terms.

• rhyme

• the pattern of beats in a line of poetry

• meter

• correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

• rhythm

• a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Poems use ​ (a)   language.

• condensed
• expanded

Poems feature intense ​ (a)  

• feelings.
• shapes.

True or false? All songs are poems. (a)  

• true
• false

True or false?

Shape does not matter in poetry.

• true

• false

The poetic form of haiku comes from...

• China

• America

• Mexico

• Japan

The word poetry was originally a verb that meant to ...

• pretend

• create

• sing

• paint

Free verse poems do all of the following except...

• rhyme

• have normal pauses

• use sound devices like alliteration, assonance, and consonance

Match the following

• consonance

• the repetition of the sound of a vowel

• assonance

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound (usually consonants) at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• alliteration

• the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity