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Lamar High School English 1 Poetry Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do you call it when there is a repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words

a)

Simile

b)

Stanza

c)

Alliteration

d)

Goobersmooch

2.

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.

a)

Free Verse

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Blank Verse

3.

A short verse intended to express the emotions of the author; often set to music.

a)

Rhythm

b)

Lyric

c)

Flows

d)

Rhymes

4.

A lyric poem written to someone or something. It is serious and elevated in tone.

a)

Ballad

b)

Ode

c)

Lyric Poem

d)

Tribute

5.

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.

a)

Imagery

b)

Meter

c)

Sights

d)

Onomatopoeia

6.

What term represents the repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of consonants?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Assonance

c)

Alliteration

d)

Simile

7.

This is what you would call one of the divisions of a poem having two or more lines.

a)

Quatrain

b)

Stanza

c)

Verse

d)

Costanza

8.

What aspect of poetry uses similar sounding words at regular intervals , usually at the end of lines.

a)

Repetition

b)

Rhyme

c)

Rhythm

d)

Quatrain

9.

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?

a)

Repetition

b)

Refrain

c)

Sonnet

d)

Rhymed Verse

10.

When there is a repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry it is referred to as?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Yard

c)

Meter

d)

Free Verse

11.

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.

a)

Repetition

b)

Free Verse

c)

Rhymed Verse

d)

Couplet

12.

Out of the four choices below which terms represent the length of a stanza?

a)

Quatrain

b)

Triplet

c)

Soliloquy

d)

Couplet

e)

All of the above

13.

A type of poem that consists of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter is known as what?

a)

A whole bunch of words

b)

Sonnet

c)

Verse

d)

Stanza

14.

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?

a)

Lyric

b)

Ballad

c)

Verse

d)

Folk tale

15.

Whaddya call it when you are writing about an object and give it human like qualities to things that are't even alive?

a)

Similie

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Objectification

16.

"The road was a ribbon of moonlight..." Is an example of

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

17.

"My love is like a red, red rose." is an example of:

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

18.

What Elizabethan era playwright was known for writing a famous series of Sonnets?

a)

Christopher Marlowe

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Oscar Wilde

d)

M'Baku

19.

What device is used as an accent in poetry, they are similar to the beats heard in music.

a)

Sick Beats

b)

Rhyme

c)

Repetition

d)

Rhythm

20.

When a verse contains rhyme and meter it is which type of verse?

a)

Narrative Verse

b)

It's not a verse, It's DiGiorno

c)

Rhymed Verse

d)

Free Verse