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Poetry Terms Assessment

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do we call a specific type of lyric poem that is always fourteen lines long and usually has a particular type of meter?

a)

An elegy

b)

An epic

c)

A sonnet

d)

A ballad

e)

An ode

2.

What do we call a poem mourning the dead?

a)

An elegy

b)

An epic

c)

A sonnet

d)

A ballad

e)

An ode

3.

What do we call long, lyric poems that were traditionally written to celebrate a famous person or a lofty idea?

a)

An elegy

b)

An epic

c)

A sonnet

d)

A ballad

e)

An ode

4.

What do we call long narrative poems, originally passed down by word of mouth, that tell about heroes who embody the values of the culture recounting the tale?

a)

An elegy

b)

An epic

c)

A sonnet

d)

A ballad

e)

An ode

5.

What do we call a song or song-like poem that tells a story and usually has a regular, steady rhythm, a simple rhyme pattern, and a refrain?

a)

An elegy

b)

An epic

c)

A sonnet

d)

A ballad

e)

An ode

6.

What do we call it when a word imitates the sound that it represents?

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Imagery

e)

Onomatopoeia

7.

What do we call a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Imagery

e)

Onomatopoeia

8.

What do we call a comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"?

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Imagery

e)

Onomatopoeia

9.

What do we call language that appeals to the senses?

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Imagery

e)

Onomatopoeia

10.

What do we call a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, attitudes, or characteristics?

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Imagery

e)

Onomatopoeia

11.

What do we call rhyme involving sounds that are similar but not exactly the same? "

a)

End rhyme

b)

Internal rhyme

c)

Approximate rhyme

d)

Alliteration

e)

Couplet

12.

What do we call something that has meaning in itself and also stands for something else?

a)

Onomatapoeia

b)

Metaphor

c)

Symbol/Symbolism

d)

Elegy

e)

Assonance

13.

What do we call it when poets carry a metaphor over several lines or throughout an entire poem?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Extended metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Extended simile

e)

Dumb

14.

What do we call poems that express the personal thoughts and feelings of the poet or the speaker?

a)

Mock epics

b)

Lyric poems

c)

Free verse poems

d)

Odes

e)

Epic poems

15.

In poetry, what do we call grouped lines?

a)

Stanzas

b)

Lines

c)

Couplets

d)

End rhymes

e)

Paragraphs

16.

What do we call the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together?

a)

End rhyme

b)

Internal rhyme

c)

Approximate rhyme

d)

Alliteration

e)

Couplet

17.

What do we call a pair of rhymed lines?

a)

Internal rhyme

b)

End rhyme

c)

Couplet

d)

Stanza

e)

Approximate rhyme

18.

What do we call a poem's narrator?

a)

Poet

b)

Speaker

c)

Narrator

d)

Talker

e)

Protagonist

19.

What do we call rows of words in a poem?

a)

Stanzas

b)

Lines

c)

Sentences

d)

Phrases

e)

Paragraphs

20.

What do we call rhymes that occur within lines?

a)

End rhyme

b)

Internal rhyme

c)

Approximate rhyme

d)

Alliteration

e)

Couplet