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Elements of Poetry

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When something stands for something else ex: tree = life

a)

Metaphor

b)

Alliteration

c)

Symbolism

d)

Theme

2.

The life lesson or lesson learned

a)

Theme

b)

Stanza

c)

Rhyme

d)

Figurative Language

3.

Similes, metaphors, personification, exaggeration or hyperbole

Poetry is more figurative than literal

a)

Alliteration

b)

Figurative Language

c)

Stanza

d)

Speaker

4.

When the author repeats the beginning sound of words in a line

Peter Piper Pizza

a)

Poet

b)

Alliteration

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Rhyme

5.

When the last words in a verse have similar ending sounds

You- Mew Night- right

a)

Rhyme

b)

Symbolism

c)

Stanza

d)

Theme

6.

Sensory details that appeals to your hearing

boom bzzz pow wow whispering

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Poet

c)

Stanza

d)

Rhyme Scheme

7.

A group of lines in a poem

a)

Alliteration

b)

Rhyme Scheme

c)

Stanza

d)

Figurative Language

8.

The beat to which your body moves

a)

Simile

b)

Rhythm

c)

Personification

d)

Line Break

9.

A pattern that the author created on purpose at the end of lines

ABAB AABB

a)

Speaker

b)

Rhyme Scheme

c)

Hyberbole

d)

Personification

10.

The author of the poem

a)

Poet

b)

Poetry

c)

Metaphor

d)

Author

11.

The person narrating the poem

a)

Narrator

b)

Author

c)

Speaker

d)

Playwright