Poetry Vocabulary Terms

Poetry Vocabulary Terms

6th Grade

15 Qs

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Poetry Vocabulary Terms

Poetry Vocabulary Terms

Assessment

Quiz

English

6th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RL.7.4, L.4.5, RI.4.10

+20

Standards-aligned

Created by

Sarah Williams

FREE Resource

15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is alliteration?

A group of lines

A pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

14 lines with end rhymes

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

2.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which TWO of the following are an example of alliteration?

She sells seashells by the seashore.

He acts silly at times, but he was blessed with a brilliant brain.

I might like to take a flight to an island in the sky.

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

......................................... is poetry that does not follow any particular rhyme scheme or pattern.

Free verse

Formal verse

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

4.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

There once was a man named Clark
Whose dog refused to bark
But when he gave the dog pie
It stopped being so shy
And is loud nonstop until dark

Which TWO sets of words are rhyming?

Clark and bark

shy and dark

pie and shy

bark and pie

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is a rhyme?

a group of lines in a poem

words that have the same ending sound. Example: tree, bee

an author of poetry

compares two unlike things by saying one is the other. Example: She is a night owl.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is rhythm?

a beat and/or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Example: da da dadada da da dadada

an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. Example: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

lines or words that are repeated. Example: I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is a Hyperbole?

an author of poetry

an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. Example: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

giving human qualities to non-human things. Example: The angry ocean swallowed the tiny ship.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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