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Introduction to Poetry

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The (a)   of the poem is the character who speaks in, or narrates, the poem.

2.

The (a)   is emotional attitude toward the reader or toward the subject implied by a poem.

3.

Poets use (a)   to create setting.

4.

Examples of tone include

a)

familiar

b)

ironic

c)

playful

d)

serious

5.

a comparison in which one thing is written about as if it were another

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

simile

6.

a comparison that uses like or as

a)

simile

b)

personification

c)

metaphor

7.

a figure of speech in which an animal, a thing, a force of nature, or an idea is described as if it were human or is given human qualities

a)

simile

b)

personification

c)

metaphor

8.

Which type of figurative language is being used in this quote?

"My joy is the joy of sunlight"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

9.

Which type of figurative language is being used in this quote?

"You are beautiful and faded/ Like an old opera tune/

Played upon a harpsichord"

a)

metahor

b)

simile

c)

personification

10.

Which type of figurative language is being used in this quote?

"The hunger of this poem is legendary / it has taken in many victims"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

11.

Imagery is the use of descriptive language which appeals to the senses such as...

a)

action

b)

sound

c)

touch

d)

taste

e)

smell

12.

The pattern of beats, or stresses in a line of poetry is called....

a)

rhyme

b)

rhythm

c)

meter

13.

A regular rhythmic pattern is called a/an

a)

rhyme

b)

rhythm

c)

meter

14.

a rhyme that occurs within lines

a)

internal rhyme

b)

end rhyme

c)

slant rhyme

d)

rhyme scheme

15.

the use of words that do not rhyme exactly but have a similar sound

a)

internal rhyme

b)

end rhyme

c)

slant rhyme

d)

rhyme scheme

16.

a rhyme that occurs at the end of lines

a)

internal rhyme

b)

end rhyme

c)

slant rhyme

d)

rhyme scheme

17.

a pattern of end rhyme designated by assigning a different letter of the alphabet to each rhyme

a)

internal rhyme

b)

end rhyme

c)

slant rhyme

d)

rhyme scheme

18.

a group of lines in a poem

a)

stanza

b)

couplet

c)

quatrain

19.

two lines in a poem

a)

stanza

b)

couplet

c)

quatrain