WorksheetsPoetry Terms
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
Diction
Sarcasm
Symbol
Theme
A single line of poetry.
Stanza
Verse
Line
Allusion
The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character. Ex: serious, sarcastic
Tone
Mood
Assonance
Irony
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
Paragraph
Meter
Alliteration
Stanza
A comparison between two things using words such as, "like" or "as."
Ex: Her smile was like a breath of fresh air.
Metaphor
Simile
Ballad
Diction
A comparison between two things without using connecting words such as "like" or "as."
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Meter
What is theme?
Poetry that doesn't rhyme.
A story/narrative in poetic form.
The author's specific word choice.
The central message an author/poet is trying to deliver to the reader.
Onomatopoeia is...
A word that sounds like what it means.
The author's specific word choice.
A single line of poetry.
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation.
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
Enjambment
Consonance
Meter
Rhythm
The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text is a (a) .
Ballad is...
A story/narrative in poetic form.
Word choice.
A single line of poetry.
Stanza
Allusion is...
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
A single line of poetry.
Alliteration is...
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
Words that sound like what they mean.
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.
Assonance
Consonance
Free verse
Symbols
Diction is also know as (a)
