AP Lit Poetry Terms

AP Lit Poetry Terms

10th - 11th Grade

45 Qs

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AP Lit Poetry Terms

AP Lit Poetry Terms

Assessment

Quiz

English

10th - 11th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RL.9-10.9, RL.9-10.10, RL.9-10.3

+16

Standards-aligned

Created by

Margaret Anderson

FREE Resource

45 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Poetry not written in traditional meter or rhyme

heroic couplet

free verse

blank verse

terza rhyma

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

a strong pause within a line of verse (usually marked by punctuation)

apostrophe

couplet

enjambment

caesura

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

a run-on line of poetry where it carries over into the next line because there is no punctuation

enjambment

end-stopped line

caesura

couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

I’m nobody! || Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there’s a pair of us || – don’t tell!

They’d banish || – you know!

caesura

enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

“April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain."

caesura

enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

change in focus, point of view, time, or tone in a poem

shift or turn

stanza

rhythm

caesura

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

stanza

a group of words or a phrase in a poem

a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in poetry

a pattern of rhyme in a poem

repeating words, phrases, or lines for emphasis

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

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