Poetry Test Review

Match the following words with examples.

• "Before I'd pay I'd go to Hades and rot"

• idiom

• Life is like a box of chocolates.

• simile

• "I am the grass/Let me work"

• metaphor

• I'm between a rock and a hard place

• personifcation

• "Mama is a sunrise"

• hyperbole

Match the following

• poems are written in _, not sentences

• form

• appeals to your 5 senses

• imagery

• a play on words

• stanza

• the way the poem looks on a page

• pun

• a paragraph of poetry

• line

Match the following

• cat, hat, bat, sat

• alliteration

• The somber song of silent snow

• onomatopoeia

• the snap, crackle, pop of the fire

• rhyme

• chilling and killing my Annabel Lee

• internal rhyme

• the beat or flow of the poem

• rhythm

Match the following

• no rules

• free verse

• 14 lines

• haiku

• 3 lines, 17 syllables

• conventional

• follows a set of rules or patterns

• limerick

• 5 lines, AABBA rhyme scheme

• sonnet

Match the following

• the writer/speaker's attitude

• topic

• the feeling the reader gets

• irony

• the broad idea of the poem

• mood

• a twist in meaning or expectations

• tone

• the specific message of the poem

• theme

Poems are told through a voice called the

• narrator

• speaker

• author

• talker

Poems are written in

• sentences

• paragraphs

• lines

• none of the above

Lines are grouped together into

• stanzas

• paragraphs

• chunks

• sections

The way a poem is arranged on the page is called its

• arrangement

• organization

• style

• form

Poetry without a regular pattern is called

• a sonnet

• an acrostic

• free verse

• none of the above