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Poetry Vocabulary

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What part of a poem do we look at to determine the rhyme scheme?

a)

The start word of a poetic line

b)

the end word of the last line in each stanza

c)

the end word of each line in the poem

d)

none of the options

2.

What is the term for a four-line stanza?

a)

Monometer

b)

Couplet

c)

Spenserian

d)

Quatrain

3.

Click all that apply:

a)

ABBA

b)

Couplet

c)

ABCD *C repeating

d)

Monastic

4.

Which term refers to a nonameter?

a)

9 feet in a line

b)

9 stanzas total

c)

9 lines in a stanza

d)

this is not a term we learned

5.

What is the term for a line with 3 feet?

a)

Iambic

b)

Tetrameter

c)

Monometer

d)

Trimeter

6.

What is this poem's rhyme scheme?

a)

AABCC

b)

ABBCC

c)

ABCC

d)

no rhyme scheme

7.

Which is the definition for stanza?

a)

Poetic foot

b)

Poetic paragraph

c)

Poetic line

d)

A poem with 7 lines total

8.

What is the name of a line that follows the unstressed/stressed pattern?

a)

dactyl

b)

Iambic

c)

Anapestic

d)

Trochee

9.

What does sestet mean?

a)

7 syllables

b)

6 feet

c)

7 line stanza

d)

6 line stanza

10.

Which term refers to a line with 5 feet?

a)

Hexameter

b)

Tetrameter

c)

Pentameter

d)

Free Form

11.

Which term refers to a stanza with 9 lines?

a)

Sonnet

b)

Quatrain

c)

Spenserian

d)

No Name

12.

If a line of poetry has a total of 7 syllables, how many feet will it have?

a)

2

b)

3

c)

7

d)

1

13.

What is a four-line poem, with one stanza, called?

a)

Couplet

b)

Sestet

c)

Quatrain

d)

Tetrameter

14.

What is a four-line poem, with 5 stanzas, called?

a)

Couplet

b)

Sestet

c)

Quatrain

d)

Tetrameter