WorksheetsPoetry Terms - Y8
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
What name do we give to the way a poem is read / the feelings in a poem?
Voice
Feelings
Tone
Dialogue
What are we commenting on when we evaluate how the poem is organised?
Style
Substance
Suspense
Structure
What do we call the repetition of a vowel sound?
Siblance
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
A metaphor is ...?
Saying something is something it is not
Saying soemthing is like something it is not
Saying something sounds like something else
Saying something rhymes with something else
'The car danced across the icy road' is an example of what?
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
What is enjambment?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line or stanza
A pause near the middle of a line
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind
What technque involves the beginning of lines of poetry starting the same?
Anaphora
Cataphora
Metaphor
Simile
A word, line or phrase that is repeated within the lines or stanzas of the poem itself is known as...?
Chorus
Stanza
Refrain
Sibilance
What do you call a paragraph in poetry?
(a)
What is a caesura?
A pause near the middle of a line.
A pause at the end of a line.
No pauses in the whole poem.
Pauses after every word.
