Poetry Pre Test

What is the structure of poetry?

• sentences and paragraphs
• lines and stanzas
• letters and numbers
• rainbows and unicorns

Writing that is not in poetry form is called what?

• bros
• goes
• throws
• prose

Poetry uses _________ devices like rhythm and rhyme.

• sight
• smell
• touch
• sound

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• true
• false

What is rhyme?

• repetition of a letter
• repetition of an ending sound
• comparing two things using like or as

What is meter?

• words that sound the same
• sophisticated vocabulary
• pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
• length of the poem

Rhythm gives poetry a __________ quality.

• musical
• old-fashioned
• important
• difficult

What is alliteration?

• using synonyms
• words that sound like their meaning
• exagerrating
• repetition of initial consonant sound

What is a refrain?

• a line that is REpeated
• the last line of a poem

Bonus: Who is a famous English Renaissance poet?

• Edgar Allan Poe
• Kid President
• William Shakespeare
• Aesop