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Poetry Week 2

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following pairs of words rhyme?

a)

Banana and Apple

b)

Cry and Pie

c)

Baby and Lady

d)

Fast and Furious

2.

What is the rhyme scheme for this poem

a)

ABCD

b)

ABAB

c)

ABBA

d)

BABA

3.

Rhyme scheme helps keep _______ and can make the poem fun.

a)

rhymes

b)

the poem going

c)

me awake

d)

rhythm

4.

What is rhythm?

a)

a poem with no regular rhythm

b)

words that imitate sounds

c)

emphasis on certain syllables throughout a piece

d)

words and/or lines that repeat

5.

Poetry is an art form that uses ______________?

a)

pictures

b)

paragraphs

c)

words

d)

music

6.

What is rhyme?

a)

A poem written with no regular rhythm

b)

Words and phrases used to help a reader imagine with the senses

c)

Words that have the same end sounds

d)

Words that imitate sounds

7.

I know I'm going somewhere,

and I can hardly wait,

Somewhere's not the sort of place

where someone should be late


What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

a)

a, b, c, b

b)

a, a, b, b,

c)

a, b, a, b

d)

a, b, c, d

8.

What is repetition?

a)

A poem with no regular rhythm

b)

Words and/or lines of a poem that repeat

c)

A comparison that suggests one thing is like another

d)

Words and/or phrases to help the reader imagine with the senses

9.

What is a concrete poem?

a)

A poem that tells a story

b)

A poem written in the shape of what the poem is about

c)

A comparison that suggests one thing is the same as another

d)

Words or phrases to help a reader imagine with the senses

10.

____________ is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line, creating rhythm and musicality. (the beat)

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

internal rhyme

c)

rhyme scheme

d)

meter

11.

What is a stanza?

a)

a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line

b)

a poem written with no rhyme or regular rhythm

c)

words that imitate sounds

d)

words written in the shape of what a poem is about

12.

_____________ poems create a shape about their subject.

a)

haiku

b)

limerick

c)

lyrical

d)

concrete

13.

Repetition is __________ words , phrases, or sentences

a)

regular pattern

b)

when words rhyme

c)

repeated

d)

stressed syllables

14.

I swear

The bear

Is near

The deer


What rhyme scheme is found in this stanza?

a)

a, a, b, b

b)

a, b, a, b

c)

a, b, b, b, a

d)

no rhyme scheme in this stanza

15.
True or False: All poems must rhyme.
a)
True
b)
False
16.

I live in a house

With two cats

And a mouse


Which one of the following shows a line break from stanza above?

a)

I live in a house /

b)

with two /

c)

a /

d)

I live in /

17.
What structure is poetry written in?
a)
Sentences & paragraphs
b)
Sentences & stanzas
c)
Lines & paragraphs
d)
Lines & stanzas
18.
Which poetry term refers to the writer of the poem?
a)
poet
b)
speaker
c)
stanza
d)
line