WorksheetsLamar High School English 1 Poetry Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What do you call it when there is a repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words
Simile
Stanza
Alliteration
Goobersmooch
What term best represents an unrhymed form of poetry which normally consists of ten syllables in which every over syllable, beginning with the second, is stressed.
Free Verse
Metaphor
Personification
Blank Verse
A short verse intended to express the emotions of the author; often set to music.
Rhythm
Lyric
Flows
Rhymes
A lyric poem written to someone or something. It is serious and elevated in tone.
Ballad
Ode
Lyric Poem
Tribute
What term represents the collection of visuals in a work of literature...words or representations that appeal to the five senses... Visuals create a picture or sensation of sound, touch, smell, taste.
Imagery
Meter
Sights
Onomatopoeia
What term represents the repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of consonants?
Metaphor
Assonance
Alliteration
Simile
This is what you would call one of the divisions of a poem having two or more lines.
Quatrain
Stanza
Verse
Costanza
What aspect of poetry uses similar sounding words at regular intervals , usually at the end of lines.
Repetition
Rhyme
Rhythm
Quatrain
In the classic Rap song, "Just a Friend" by Biz Markie contains the chorus:
You, you got what I need but you say he's just a friend
And you say he's just a friend, oh baby
You, you got what I need but you say he's just a friend
But you say he's just a friend, oh baby
You, you got what I need but you say he's just a friend
But you say he's just a friend
A chorus in poetry can also be referred to as a?
Repetition
Refrain
Sonnet
Rhymed Verse
When there is a repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry it is referred to as?
Alliteration
Yard
Meter
Free Verse
The form of poetry that does not have regular meter or rhyme scheme, but which has an underlying sense of rhythm which makes the work clearly distinguishable from prose.
Repetition
Free Verse
Rhymed Verse
Couplet
Out of the four choices below which terms represent the length of a stanza?
Quatrain
Triplet
Soliloquy
Couplet
All of the above
A type of poem that consists of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter is known as what?
A whole bunch of words
Sonnet
Verse
Stanza
A narrative poem which usually tells a story, is often meant for singing, and characterized by the simplicity of it's language is known as?
Lyric
Ballad
Verse
Folk tale
Whaddya call it when you are writing about an object and give it human like qualities to things that are't even alive?
Similie
Metaphor
Personification
Objectification
"The road was a ribbon of moonlight..." Is an example of
Metaphor
Simile
"My love is like a red, red rose." is an example of:
Simile
Metaphor
What Elizabethan era playwright was known for writing a famous series of Sonnets?
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
M'Baku
What device is used as an accent in poetry, they are similar to the beats heard in music.
Sick Beats
Rhyme
Repetition
Rhythm
When a verse contains rhyme and meter it is which type of verse?
Narrative Verse
It's not a verse, It's DiGiorno
Rhymed Verse
Free Verse
