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Poetry Vocabulary

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are words that imitate sounds (ex: Crash! Buzz! Roar!)

a)

Rhyme

b)

Rhythm

c)

Line Breaks

d)

Onomatopoeia

2.

What is a pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds that creates a rhythm (ex: hickory dickory dock, the mouse went up the clock)?

a)

Rhythm

b)

Alliteration

c)

Meter

d)

Beat

3.

What do we call similarity of ending sounds in words (ex: The cat sat on the hat.)?

a)

Rhyme

b)

Repetition

c)

Alliteration

d)

Meter

4.

What is repetition of beginning consonant sounds (ex: the bubbling babbling brook)?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Rhythm

c)

Rhyme

d)

Onomatopoeia

5.

What do we call a grouping of two or more lines?

a)

Repetition

b)

White Space

c)

Line Break

d)

Stanza

6.

What is called when a line of poetry is broken and a new line begins?

a)

Meter

b)

Symbolism

c)

Line Break

d)

Stanza

7.

What do we call repeating sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas?

a)

Rhyme

b)

Repetition

c)

Alliteration

d)

Meter

8.

What is the empty part of the page surrounding the words in a poem called?

a)

Repetition

b)

White Space

c)

Line Break

d)

Stanza

9.

What do we call the descriptive language that engages the five senses (think sensory details)?

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Rhyme

c)

Imagery

d)

White Space

10.

In this short audio clip of the poem called "The Scientist and the Bumblebee", I can hear the poet using

(a)  

11.

In this short audio clip of the poem called "Paper People", I can see in the title and hear the poet using

(a)  

12.

In this short audio clip of the poem called "About Time", I can hear the poet using

(a)  

13.

In this short audio clip of a song by Eminem, I can hear the singer using

(a)