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Poetry Review

Total questions: 56

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Poetry is writing that...

a)

...is emotional

b)

...doesn't use punctuation

c)

...uses words for their sound AND meaning

d)

...uses words only for their meaning

2.

Poets often use this to create pauses and add emphasis to specific lines, phrases, or words in their poems.

a)

capital letters

b)

dashes

c)

sporadic punctuation

d)

all of the above

3.

A stanza is...

a)

...a group of lines

b)

...a short poem

c)

...the rhyme scheme

d)

...the way to measure a poem's rhythm

4.
A stanza with 4 lines is called a...
a)
tercet
b)
quatrain
c)
couplet
d)
octave
5.

A couplet is...

a)

...a group of lines

b)

...a pair of rhyming lines

c)

...a rhyme scheme

d)

...a pair of poems

6.

An _______ is a poem mourning the dead with no set metric or stanza pattern.

a)

Ode

b)

Elegy

c)

Sonnet

d)

Epic

7.
An ______ is a long narrative poem, recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero.
a)
Epic
b)
Limerick
c)
Ballad
8.

This type of poem has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern

a)

Free verse

b)

Narrative

c)

Limerick

d)

Concrete

9.

This type of poem has three lines and a 5/7/5 meter

a)

Limerick

b)

Ode

c)

Ballad

d)

Haiku

10.
A haiku poem consists of how many lines?
a)
7
b)
5
c)
3
11.

Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme are...

a)

Limericks

b)

Haikus

c)

Narrative poems

d)

Lyric poems

12.

This type of poem tells a story in verse and likely has characters, a setting, plot, conflict, and theme

a)

Lyric

b)

Narrative

c)

Haiku

d)

Ode

13.

A _________ is a poem consisting of 14 lines and usually written in iambic pentameter.

a)

Ode

b)

Elegy

c)

Sonnet

d)

Limerick

14.
There are two types of Sonnets. What are they?
a)
Shakespearean and Italian
b)
Italian and Chinese
c)
Shakespearean and American
15.

When a writer refers to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, or piece of literature...

a)

Allusion

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Personification

16.

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

a)

Assonance

b)

Alliteration

c)

Consonance

d)

Onomatopoeia

17.

The following sentence contains...

Kathy has a collection of crazy, calico cats.

a)

alliteration

b)

imagery

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

18.

Repetition of internal vowel sounds

a)

Consonance

b)

Rhyme

c)

Alliteration

d)

Assonance

19.

Repetition of similar consonant sounds

a)

Consonance

b)

Assonance

c)

Alliteration

d)

Repetition

20.

He stood on the road and cried.

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

consonance

d)

repetition

21.
An obvious exaggeration
a)
hyperbole
b)
alliteration
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
22.

Words that appeal to the five senses

a)

metaphor

b)

theme

c)

personification

d)

imagery

23.

The rhythmical pattern of a poem

a)

Meter

b)

Rhyme

c)

Repetition

d)

Onomatopoeia

24.

The feeling the reader gets from a poem

a)

stanza

b)

tone

c)

mood

d)

metaphor

25.

Words that are used to imitate sounds

a)

Rhyme

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Assonance

d)

Consonance

26.

The following sentence contains...

With a crash, the tree fell on the ground.

a)

theme

b)

alliteration

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

metaphor

27.

Giving human-like qualities to something non-human

a)

personification

b)

allusion

c)

imagery

d)

theme

28.

The following sentence contains...

The flowers danced in the breeze.

a)

metaphor

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

29.

The use of any element of language more than once

(sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence)

a)

repetition

b)

rhythm

c)

rhyme

d)

meter

30.

Repetition of sounds at the ends of words

a)

Rhythm

b)

Meter

c)

Rhyme

d)

Consonance

31.

What is rhyme scheme?

a)

number of syllables in each line

b)

the way to measure a poems rhythm

c)

a group of lines

d)

The pattern of the rhyme in a poem.

32.

A comparison between two unlike things using "as" or "like"

a)

tone

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

mood

33.

The following sentence contains...

The story was like a puzzle with different meanings.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

personfication

34.

The following sentence contains...

Captain Bennett was an angry buffalo.

a)

simile

b)

personification

c)

metaphor

d)

theme

35.

Anything that represents something else

a)

symbol

b)

simile

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

personification

36.

The author's attitude toward the poem's subject

a)

mood

b)

tone

c)

theme

d)

speaker

37.

The following sentence contains...

The wind whistled by the window.

a)

alliteration and onomatopoeia

b)

alliteration and metaphor

c)

simile and allusion

d)

onomatopoeia and hyperbole

38.

The following sentence contains...

Don't judge a book by its cover.

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

theme

c)

simile

d)

personification

39.

The following quote contains...

"life is a broken winged bird/that cannot fly" - Langston Hughes

a)

simile

b)

allusion

c)

imagery

d)

metaphor

40.

The following quote contains...

"I'll love you til the river jumps over the mountain" - WH Auden

a)

personification and hyperbole

b)

personification and imagery

c)

metaphor and simile

d)

simile and allusion

41.

The following sentence contains...

I'm no Hercules, but I can try to open that jar.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

allusion

d)

rhyme

42.

The following quote contains...

"So many watches I need eight arms" - Jay Z

a)

personification

b)

hyperbole

c)

metaphor

d)

extended metaphor

43.

The metaphor "Time is a thief" probably means...

a)

Time moves fast!

b)

It's fun to spend time together

c)

Thieves steal things

d)

Time doesn't matter

44.

The feeling we get when hearing/reading a word or phrase

a)

connotation

b)

denotation

c)

tone

d)

literal meaning

45.

The dictionary definition of a word is also know as...

a)

tone

b)

connotation

c)

denotation

d)

alliteration

46.

A phrase/saying that has come to mean something totally different than what the words literally mean

a)

pun

b)

rhyme

c)

metaphor

d)

idiom

47.

"You're pulling my leg" is an example of

a)

idiom

b)

pun

c)

personification

d)

simile

48.

A play on words that makes a joke out of words that sound the same but have different meanings/spellings

a)

pun

b)

idiom

c)

allusion

d)

onomatopoeia

49.

The following sentence contains...

I balked when I saw the tall cop in the hall; I knew he was looking for you.

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

consonance

d)

What did you do this time?!

50.

The following sentence contains...

Until he picks up the pills, Tim will feel icky.

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

consonance

d)

Tim sure gets sick often

51.

The following sentence contains...

The zoo was amazing, especially the lizards and chimpanzees.

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

consonance

d)

imagery

52.

The following sentence contains...

Chilly chicken children shivered with goosebumps.

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

consonance

d)

imagery

53.

The following sentence contains...

A blue, new moon rose high in the sky, casting a subdued hue over the school.

a)

consonance

b)

assonance

c)

imagery

d)

creepy

54.

The following sentence contains...

A tall tree could fall hard, even with no ear near.

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

consonance

d)

parable

55.

Which of the following does not contain an alliteration?

a)

Erin cooked cupcakes in the kitchen.

b)

The lion licked his lips.

c)

The tank ran everything over.

d)

She happily helped Henry hang up the decorations.

56.

What phrase would make the following word an alliteration: Sam

a)

circled the building.

b)

ran around the building.

c)

is like a cheetah when he runs.

d)

jogged to the building.