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WorksheetsPerformance Poetry
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What two words are important when performing a poem?
Memory
Pitch
Verses
Pace
What does Pitch mean?
Moving your eyes around
Using your body
Changing the tone and volume of your voice
Remembering your lines off by heart
What does pace mean?
Learning your poem off by heart
The speed at which you speak your poem
Using hand/arm gestures
Looking at your audience
If you make a particular word/phrase/line stand out, or be different, what are you using?
Pathetic Fallacy
Onomatoopoeia
Emphasis
Repetition
What do we call it when words at the end of the line sound the same?
(a)
What is iambic pentameter an example of?
Rhythm
Alliteration
Repetition
Oxymoron
What 2 things does Michael Rosen advise you do when performing?
Learn your poem
Become the character/narrator/poet
Shut your eyes
Forget yourself - it's ok to be silly
What does Michael Rosen suggest?
Use your face and body
Sing
Turn your back on the audience
Eat
What do you think is important? Choose 2.
Making eye contact
Reading your poem
Speaking in a monotone
Being enthusiastic
What is it called when you stop speaking for a moment?
Hyperbole
Pause
Alliteration
Rhyme
What should you not do?
Shout
Mumble
Laugh
Smile
What language technique can really help in a perfomance?
Oxymoron
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Pathetic Fallacy
What do you call a competition when people perform poetry in front of a live audience and a panel of judges?
Boring poetry
I love to perform poems
Poetry Mash
Poetry Slam
What is the term used to describe a repetition of 's' sounds?
Personification
Sibilance
Pathetic Fallacy
Assonance
When lines of a poem are grouped together, they form a what?
Song
Sonnet
Stanza
Symphony
When we talk about following an AABB or ABAB pattern, what are we referring to?
The alphabet
Morse Code
The rhyme scheme
The number of pages
What type of poem usually has fourteen lines, a regular rhyme scheme and ends with a rhyming couplet?
A Haiku
A Limmerick
Freeverse poetry
A sonnet
What is a group of poems published together often referred to as?
A pamphlet
An anthology
A series
A sequel
Who wrote the poem 'Talking Turkeys'?
William Wordsworth
Shelley
Benjamin Zephaniah
Carol Ann Duffy
What is the word used to describe when a sentence/clause crosses a line break and continues on more than one line?
Anaphora
Caesura
Enjambment
Structure
