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WorksheetsBasic Elements of Poetry
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 16mins
The attitude of the author towards its subject is called _________.
Mood
Tone
Theme
It is the emotion of feeling conveyed to the readers after reading a poem.
Mood
Tone
Addressee
When something stands for something else ex: tree = life
Metaphor
Alliteration
Symbolism
Theme
Similes, metaphors, personification, exaggeration or hyperbole
Poetry is more figurative than literal
Alliteration
Figurative Language
Stanza
Speaker
When the author repeats the beginning sound of words in a line
Peter Piper Pizza
Poet
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
A group of lines in a poem
Alliteration
Rhyme Scheme
Stanza
Figurative Language
The person narrating the poem
Narrator
Author
Speaker
Playwright
The truth, message or lesson of a poem is called the _______.
Stanza
Mood
Theme
Rhyme
Poems may have a regular _________________, which is the repetition of similar sounds.
Meter
Rhyme
Alliteration
Graphic Elements
The rhyme scheme is the
units of stressed syllables at the end of the lines
nonrhyming stanzas at the end of the lines
measures of stressed and unstressed syllables at the end of the lines
pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines
Free verse poems
do not follow a fixed pattern
are always about nature
have a rhyme scheme of 5-7-5
follow a fixed pattern
