Poetry Terminology Quiz
Authored by Alice Hubbard
English
9th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is an elegy?
A poem that tells a story
A melancholy poem about death ending in consolation
A poem meant to be accompanied by music
A formal lyric poem commemorating a person
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a couplet?
Two poems side by side
A pair of successive rhyming lines
A repeated idea
A poem made up of two stanzas
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a sonnet?
A poem with a single sentiment and a 'turn' in the concluding lines
A poem that tells a story
A poem meant to be accompanied by music
A poem with an imagined speaker
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a stanza?
A pair of successive rhyming lines
A grouping of lines separated from one another
A poetic unit of three lines
A line ending with a punctuation break
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is enjambment?
A line ending with a punctuation break
A piece of punctuation used in a line
The end of a line does not end with punctuation
A poetic unit of three lines
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a foot in poetry?
A grouping of lines separated from one another
The most basic part of a poem's metre
A pair of successive rhyming lines
A poetic unit of three lines
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a trimeter?
One foot
Two feet
Three feet
Four feet
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