WorksheetsPoetry Unit Vocabulary
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 32mins
"Bang!" "Splash!" "Boom!" Are all examples of what figurative language technique?
Hyperbole
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
The message or an underlying meaning of a poem
Moral
Lesson
Theme
Motif
The attitude the author has toward the subject of the poem
Mood
Tone
What is a pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds that creates a rhythm (ex: hickory dickory dock, the mouse went up the clock)?
Rhythm
Alliteration
Meter
Beat
What is repetition of beginning consonant sounds (ex: the bubbling babbling brook)?
Alliteration
Rhythm
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
How would allusion be defined?
a reference to a famous person, place, or event
words that involve one of the five senses
two lines working as a unit
a form or wordplay with similar sounding sounds
How would one define Assonance?
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.
The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character
A line of poetry that is shorter than the others in the poem
the central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.
How would one explain what a ballad is?
a ballad is the author's specific word choice
a ballad is a ball at which a poem is set to music and everyone dances.
a ballad is a brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art
a ballad is a story or a narrative written in poetic form
What is the definition of consonance?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words in a chunk of text.
The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text.
The repetition of vowel sounds in consecutive words in a chunk of text.
The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables (meter) in a poem.
Diction is ...
a single line of poetry.
the author's specific word choice.
a unified group of lines in poetry.
a literary device. Here is an example: Love is a battlefield
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
Verse
Enjambment
Trafuffle
Flatulence
A single line of poetry.
Verse
one-liner
Diction
monoline
An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
stanza
sign
symbol
symbology
(a) is a style of poetry that has no rhyme or measurable meter.
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, this could be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
Rhythm
Rhyme
Thyme
Rye
Stanza
The last name of George, a character on Seinfeld
a unified group of lines in poetry.
Ex. Buzz, Slam, Flush, Swish
Italian for poem
A word that sounds like what it means is (a)
In the ballad story of Green Eggs and Ham, the best example of theme would be...
You'll never know what is best if you don't try new things
Do NOT eat on a plane or train
Pester people into trying things you like
There is no theme in that ballad.
What is the tone of this poem by Edgar Allen Poe?
Scary, Eerie, Sad
Silly, Funny, Happy
Confused
C#
If someone were to say, "Well, I was born on September 11, 2001, so there's a stain on my birthday forever!" They'd be making an allusion to what tragic event.
The World Trade Center Buildings being destroyed by terrorists.
Shakespeare's death
the day the music died
none of these
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words such as "like" or "as."
metaphor
hyperbole
personification
simile
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as "like" or "as."
metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
and Jill came tumbling after.
ballad
verse
stanza
hook
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain
assonance
consonance
pestilence
enjambment
Drink, Drank, Drunk,
Pitter Patter, let's get att'er
consonance
assonance
onomatopoeia
SLAM!
The sun hovered above
the horizon, suspended between
night and day
Trufuffle
Enjambment
Meter
Mode
A rose represents love
A dove represents peace
Sign
symbol
cymbal
symbology
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode
Free Verse Poetry
Iambic Pentameter Poetry
Rhythmic Satire
Tectonic plates
