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WorksheetsPoetry Terms
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is the term for a single line of poetry?
Line
Verse
Stanza
Poem
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art is
Allusion
Alliteration
Enjambment
Consonance
Term: a word that sounds like what it means.
Ballad
Symbol
Onomatopoeia
The author's specific word choice-is called
Assonance
Diction
Rhythm
Tone
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.
Term: The measured arrangement of sounds/ beats in a poem. This can include placement of emphasis and syllables per line.
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Metaphor
Simile
Meter
What is an object or action that does more than its literal meaning?
Symbol
Enjambment
Metaphor
A story/ narrative in poetic form is
Ballad
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Theme
Stanza
What is the central meaning or lesson in a poem?
Verse
Rhythm
Theme
Tone
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter is
Assonance
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Allusion
Theme
What is a figure of speech that uses like or as to compare 2 things
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
True
False
The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowel sounds, in a chunk of text is Consonance
False
True
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem is Enjambment.
True
False
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text is assonance.
True
False
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as "like" or "as" is a Simile
True
False
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
True
False
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
Enjambment
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None of the above
