WorksheetsDiagnostic Quiz-Elements of poetry
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which word means "the feelings or emotions a poem is trying to show"?
Mood
Tone
Alliteration
Rhythm
A paragraph in a poem is also called a _______.
Paragraph
Group
Stanza
Lines
What is a group of words in a poem called?
A beat
A rhythm
A group
A line
True or False: All poems must rhyme.
True
False
What are words that imitate sounds?
personification
simile
onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?
Shine bright like a diamond.
I'm hungry like the wolf.
Love is a battlefield
Which sentence below shows personification?
The air was cold.
The sun is bright yellow.
The cat raced down the hall.
The leaves danced in the wind.
Which sentence below is a simile?
She runs as fast as a cheetah.
She runs fast.
She is a fast runner.
She and a cheetah run fast.
Which of these lines has the same rhythm (meter) as
"One banana two banana"?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood
I'm a monkey you're a monkey
I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream
Howdy partner
Peter Piper picked a peck of peppers.
This is an example of what poetic sound device?
Hyperbole
Haiku
Alliteration
Imagery
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry is called ____________________.
Meter
Rhyme
Personification
line
Which type of poem does NOT have a regular meter or rhyme scheme?
Haiku
Limerick
Sonnet
Free verse
The way the speaker seems to feel about the subject is the poem's ________________.
Metaphor
Tone
Symbolism
Rhythm
What is the rhyme scheme of this limerick?
“There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, ‘It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!”
ABCAA
ABBCA
ABABA
AABBA
What is true about poetry?
Poetry is always written in strict form.
Poets choose words for their meaning and sound.
Unlike prose, poetry is written in straightforward language.
Poets never read their poems aloud.
