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Performance Poetry

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What two words are important when performing a poem?

a)

Memory

b)

Pitch

c)

Verses

d)

Pace

2.

What does Pitch mean?

a)

Moving your eyes around

b)

Using your body

c)

Changing the tone and volume of your voice

d)

Remembering your lines off by heart

3.

What does pace mean?

a)

Learning your poem off by heart

b)

The speed at which you speak your poem

c)

Using hand/arm gestures

d)

Looking at your audience

4.

If you make a particular word/phrase/line stand out, or be different, what are you using?

a)

Pathetic Fallacy

b)

Onomatoopoeia

c)

Emphasis

d)

Repetition

5.

What do we call it when words at the end of the line sound the same?

(a)  

6.

What is iambic pentameter an example of?

a)

Rhythm

b)

Alliteration

c)

Repetition

d)

Oxymoron

7.

What 2 things does Michael Rosen advise you do when performing?

a)

Learn your poem

b)

Become the character/narrator/poet

c)

Shut your eyes

d)

Forget yourself - it's ok to be silly

8.

What does Michael Rosen suggest?

a)

Use your face and body

b)

Sing

c)

Turn your back on the audience

d)

Eat

9.

What do you think is important? Choose 2.

a)

Making eye contact

b)

Reading your poem

c)

Speaking in a monotone

d)

Being enthusiastic

10.

What is it called when you stop speaking for a moment?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Pause

c)

Alliteration

d)

Rhyme

11.

What should you not do?

a)

Shout

b)

Mumble

c)

Laugh

d)

Smile

12.

What language technique can really help in a perfomance?

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Personification

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Pathetic Fallacy

13.

What do you call a competition when people perform poetry in front of a live audience and a panel of judges?

a)

Boring poetry

b)

I love to perform poems

c)

Poetry Mash

d)

Poetry Slam

14.

What is the term used to describe a repetition of 's' sounds?

a)

Personification

b)

Sibilance

c)

Pathetic Fallacy

d)

Assonance

15.

When lines of a poem are grouped together, they form a what?

a)

Song

b)

Sonnet

c)

Stanza

d)

Symphony

16.

When we talk about following an AABB or ABAB pattern, what are we referring to?

a)

The alphabet

b)

Morse Code

c)

The rhyme scheme

d)

The number of pages

17.

What type of poem usually has fourteen lines, a regular rhyme scheme and ends with a rhyming couplet?

a)

A Haiku

b)

A Limmerick

c)

Freeverse poetry

d)

A sonnet

18.

What is a group of poems published together often referred to as?

a)

A pamphlet

b)

An anthology

c)

A series

d)

A sequel

19.

Who wrote the poem 'Talking Turkeys'?

a)

William Wordsworth

b)

Shelley

c)

Benjamin Zephaniah

d)

Carol Ann Duffy

20.

What is the word used to describe when a sentence/clause crosses a line break and continues on more than one line?

a)

Anaphora

b)

Caesura

c)

Enjambment

d)

Structure