WorksheetsPoetry Terms Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
An extreme exaggeration for effect is called:
Hyperbole
Personification
Connotation
Free Verse
Making a creative comparison that is not literally true or portraying a person place or thing as being something else is called a:
Metaphor
Simile
Imagery
Alliteration
A pattern of rhyme at the end of lines in a poem (measured with letters -- ABC, etc) is called a:
Free Verse
Rhyme Scheme
Connotation
Stanza
Giving human-like characteristics or human actions to objects, animals or ideas is called:
Alliteration
Tone
Imagery
Personification
Using the words "like" or "as" or another connective word to compare one thing to another in a creative and indirect way is called a:
Metaphor
Simile
Stanza
Hyperbole
Normal writing -- all grammar rules apply would be considered:
Free Verse
Rhyme Scheme
Prose
Connotation
Words that make a sound is called:
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Tone
Personification
The feelings that are attached to words, beyond literal meaning is called:
Connotation
Tone
Stanza
Personification
Using language that creates a picture in the reader's minds (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures) is called:
Alliteration
Imagery
Tone
Personification
When the beginning sounds of words are repeated is called:
Onomatopoeia
Connotation
Rhyme Scheme
Alliteration
Group of lines in poem is called:
A Stanza
Free Verse
Prose
Alliteration
Attitude of the speaker toward the subject; overall emotion expressed through words and sentence length is called:
Tone
Prose
Free Verse
Theme
Poetry written without a recurring rhythm, rhyme or meter is called:
Prose
Free Verse
Tone
Connotation
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
The Sun now rose upon the right;
Out of the sea came he,
Still hid in mist, and on the left
Went down into the sea.
