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Basic Elements of Poetry

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The attitude of the author towards its subject is called _________.

a)

Mood

b)

Tone

c)

Theme

2.

It is the emotion of feeling conveyed to the readers after reading a poem.

a)

Mood

b)

Tone

c)

Addressee

3.

When something stands for something else ex: tree = life

a)

Metaphor

b)

Alliteration

c)

Symbolism

d)

Theme

4.

Similes, metaphors, personification, exaggeration or hyperbole

Poetry is more figurative than literal

a)

Alliteration

b)

Figurative Language

c)

Stanza

d)

Speaker

5.

When the author repeats the beginning sound of words in a line

Peter Piper Pizza

a)

Poet

b)

Alliteration

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Rhyme

6.

A group of lines in a poem

a)

Alliteration

b)

Rhyme Scheme

c)

Stanza

d)

Figurative Language

7.

The person narrating the poem

a)

Narrator

b)

Author

c)

Speaker

d)

Playwright

8.
Imagery is:
a)
comparison of two unlike things.
b)
the use of words that mimic sounds.
c)
an exaggerated statement.
d)
language that appeals to the senses.
9.

The truth, message or lesson of a poem is called the _______.

a)

Stanza

b)

Mood

c)

Theme

d)

Rhyme

10.
True or False: All poems must rhyme.
a)
True
b)
False
11.

Poems may have a regular _________________, which is the repetition of similar sounds.

a)

Meter

b)

Rhyme

c)

Alliteration

d)

Graphic Elements

12.
What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Alliteration
d)
Hyberbole
13.
What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Alliteration
c)
Metaphor
d)
Simile
14.
Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? 
a)
Metaphor
b)
Alliteration
c)
Personification
d)
Hyperbole
15.
What is "onomatopoeia" ?
a)
An exaggeration
b)
Sound words
c)
Rhyming words
d)
A form of imagery
16.
What is personification?
a)
A person emphasizing something in a poem.
b)
An object or animal taking on human characteristics.
c)
A type of poem that tells about a person's life.
d)
A type of poetry that uses metaphors to describe a person.
17.
Onomatopoeias, metaphors, similes, hyperboles, idioms, and personification are all types of...
a)
figurative language
b)
sensory language
c)
genres
d)
media
18.

The rhyme scheme is the

a)

units of stressed syllables at the end of the lines

b)

nonrhyming stanzas at the end of the lines

c)

measures of stressed and unstressed syllables at the end of the lines

d)

pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines

19.

Free verse poems

a)

do not follow a fixed pattern

b)

are always about nature

c)

have a rhyme scheme of 5-7-5

d)

follow a fixed pattern

20.
The rhythm of the poem is also known as the:
a)
Mood
b)
Denotation
c)
Meter
d)
Conotation