Poetry Theory and Elements Quiz

A poem consisting of a single speaker expressing a state of mind or process or perception, feeling, emotion, or thought

• Narrative

• Lyric

• Ode

• Elegy

How does imagery help us understand the poetry?

• By expressing how the author is feeling

• Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel through words

• By telling the mood

• By using figurative language

What is Haiku?

•  a form of Japanese poetry

• a type of small fish found in the Arctic ocean

• a form of Chinese poetry

• a form of Russian poetry

“There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause it's cold in there,”

What types of imagery used on the above lines?

• Visual Imagery

• Olfactory Imagery

• Tactile Imagery

• Auditory Imagery

Which question focuses on the diction of the poem?

• What ambiguities in the poem allow for multiple interpretations?

• How would you describe the author's choice of words?

• What functions do pauses perform in the sound pattern?

• What emotions do the images suggest?

Several lines grouped together in a poem is called..?

• Repetition

• Stanza

• Poetry

• Line

What is alliteration?

• the repetition of a sound in the initial position of various words, or of a consonant sound within the words

• the repetition of a sound in the initial position of various words, or of a vowel sound within the words

• the repetition of harsh sound in the initial position of various words, or of a consonant sound within the words

• another word for a tongue-twister

What does a poem always do?

•  rhythm and tone

• uses imaginative language

• rhymes

• uses clear, simple language to get the facts across

What is the metrical feet of the following lines:

My heart is like a singing bird

Whose nest is in a watered shoot.

• iambic

• anapestic

• dactylic

• trochaic

one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed, known as ...?

• iambic

• dactylic

• trochaic

• spondaic