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Poetry Terms

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the term for a single line of poetry?

a)

Line

b)

Verse

c)

Stanza

d)

Poem

2.

A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art is

a)

Allusion

b)

Alliteration

c)

Enjambment

d)

Consonance

3.

Term: a word that sounds like what it means.

a)

Ballad

b)

Symbol

c)

Onomatopoeia

4.

The author's specific word choice-is called

a)

Assonance

b)

Diction

c)

Rhythm

d)

Tone

5.

Term: The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how the sounds are arranged, the (a)   of the poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.

6.

Term: The measured arrangement of sounds/ beats in a poem. This can include placement of emphasis and syllables per line.

a)

Free Verse

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Meter

7.

What is an object or action that does more than its literal meaning?

a)

Symbol

b)

Enjambment

c)

Metaphor

8.

A story/ narrative in poetic form is

a)

Ballad

b)

Free Verse

c)

Theme

d)

Stanza

9.

What is the central meaning or lesson in a poem?

a)

Verse

b)

Rhythm

c)

Theme

d)

Tone

10.

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter is

a)

Assonance

b)

Free Verse

c)

Allusion

d)

Theme

11.

What is a figure of speech that uses like or as to compare 2 things

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Onomatopoeia

12.

Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowel sounds, in a chunk of text is Consonance

a)

False

b)

True

14.

A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem is Enjambment.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text is assonance.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as "like" or "as" is a Simile

a)

True

b)

False

17.

The attitude the poem's narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc is Tone

a)

True

b)

False

18.

This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.

a)

Enjambment

b)

Free Verse

c)

None of the above