Poetry Vocabulary

Which of the following is an example of a form or structure in poetry?

• Dialogue

• Soliloquy

• Sonnet

• Chapter

What is poetry?

• A type of literature that uses paragraphs and chapters

• A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form using lines and stanzas

• A type of literature that only uses dialogue

• A type of literature that is always written in prose

What is the "speaker" in a poem?

• The person who reads the poem aloud

• The "narrator" or voice of the poem

• The author of the poem

• The audience of the poem

What is the main focus of the term "Form" in poetry?

• The meaning of the words

• The appearance of the words on the page

• The sound of the words

• The length of the poem

What is a "line" in the context of a poem?

• A group of words together on one line of the poem

• A paragraph in a poem

• A single word in a poem

• A stanza in a poem

What is a stanza in poetry?

• A single line of a poem

• A group of lines arranged together, like a paragraph

• A type of rhyme scheme

• A title of a poem

What is a soliloquy?

• A type of poem where the speaker speaks thoughts aloud, even if alone

• A dialogue between two characters

• A poem that rhymes

• A story told in third person

What is a sonnet?

• A type of poem with fourteen lines

• A type of poem with twelve lines

• A type of poem with sixteen lines

• A type of poem with ten lines

What is rhythm in poetry?

• The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem

• The rhyme scheme of a poem

• The number of lines in a stanza

• The use of metaphors in a poem

What is an example of two words that rhyme?

• Cat and Hat

• Dog and Car

• Sun and Moon

• Tree and Sky