Poetry Terminology Quiz

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is a trimeter?

• One foot

• Two feet

• Three feet

• Four feet

What is a triplet in poetry?

• A four-line stanza

• A poetic unit of three lines

• A pair of successive rhyming lines

• A grouping of lines separated from one another

What is assonance?

• The repetition of vowel sounds

• A rhyme scheme of ABAB

• 'S' or 'sh' sounds used near each other

• A rhyme that occurs within a single line

What is an eye rhyme?

• Words that are spelled alike but pronounced differently

• A rhyme that occurs within a single line

• A rhyme scheme of ABBA

• A rhyme scheme of AAA