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Poetry Term Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
A poem that takes a shape that suggests its subject.
a)
Alliteration
b)
Concrete Poem
c)
Narrative Poem
d)
Figurative Language
2.
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
a)
Imagery
b)
Free Verse
c)
Alliteration
d)
Onomatopoeia
3.
The ordinary form of written language
a)
Prose
b)
Free Verse
c)
Figurative Language
d)
Stanza
4.
A figure of speech in which something is described as if it were something else.
a)
Personification
b)
Imagery
c)
Simile
d)
Metaphor
5.
The use of words to imitate sounds.
a)
Figurative Language
b)
Refrain
c)
Onomatopoeia
d)
Prose
6.
Poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern or meter.
a)
Free Verse
b)
Narrative Poem
c)
Concrete Poem
d)
Metaphor
7.
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language.
a)
Simile
b)
Idiom
c)
Prose
d)
Rhythm
8.
Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.
a)
Prose
b)
Idiom
c)
Figurative Language
d)
Metaphor
9.
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
a)
Metaphor
b)
Simile
c)
Alliteration
d)
Personification
10.
Groups of lines in a poem that are usually similar in length and rhythm and are separated into sections.
a)
Prose
b)
Stanza
c)
Alliteration
d)
Refrain
11.
A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song.
a)
Stanza
b)
Refrain
c)
Free Verse
d)
Prose
12.
Language that appeals to one of the five senses.
a)
Figurative Language
b)
Simile
c)
Imagery
d)
Metaphor
13.
An expression that has a meaning particular to a language or region.
a)
Onomatopoeia
b)
Prose
c)
Narrative Poem
d)
Idiom
14.
A poem that tells a story.
a)
Lyric Poem
b)
Narrative Poem
c)
Concrete Poem
d)
Song
15.
Type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics.
a)
Metaphor
b)
Onomatopoeia
c)
Alliteration
d)
Personification