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WorksheetsPoetry Terms Assessment
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
What do we call a specific type of lyric poem that is always fourteen lines long and usually has a particular type of meter?
An elegy
An epic
A sonnet
A ballad
An ode
What do we call a poem mourning the dead?
An elegy
An epic
A sonnet
A ballad
An ode
What do we call long, lyric poems that were traditionally written to celebrate a famous person or a lofty idea?
An elegy
An epic
A sonnet
A ballad
An ode
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?
An elegy
An epic
A sonnet
A ballad
An ode
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?
An elegy
An epic
A sonnet
A ballad
An ode
What do we call it when a word imitates the sound that it represents?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
What do we call a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
What do we call a comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
What do we call language that appeals to the senses?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
What do we call a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, attitudes, or characteristics?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
What do we call rhyme involving sounds that are similar but not exactly the same? "
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
Approximate rhyme
Alliteration
Couplet
What do we call something that has meaning in itself and also stands for something else?
Onomatapoeia
Metaphor
Symbol/Symbolism
Elegy
Assonance
What do we call it when poets carry a metaphor over several lines or throughout an entire poem?
Metaphor
Extended metaphor
Simile
Extended simile
Dumb
What do we call poems that express the personal thoughts and feelings of the poet or the speaker?
Mock epics
Lyric poems
Free verse poems
Odes
Epic poems
In poetry, what do we call grouped lines?
Stanzas
Lines
Couplets
End rhymes
Paragraphs
What do we call the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together?
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
Approximate rhyme
Alliteration
Couplet
What do we call a pair of rhymed lines?
Internal rhyme
End rhyme
Couplet
Stanza
Approximate rhyme
What do we call a poem's narrator?
Poet
Speaker
Narrator
Talker
Protagonist
What do we call rows of words in a poem?
Stanzas
Lines
Sentences
Phrases
Paragraphs
What do we call rhymes that occur within lines?
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
Approximate rhyme
Alliteration
Couplet
