WorksheetsBasic Poetry Review
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 32mins
What is poetry?
Where the sound and meaning of words are combined to express feelings, thoughts, and ideas.
Words and paragraphs with a main idea for each.
Choosing words to fit the needs of the author and his/her audience
What does a poet do?
writes a fiction story
writes non-fiction
writes poems
Instead of a paragraph, in poetry we call the sections...
stanzas
chunks
fragments
breaks
True or False: Poems must follow grammatical rules.
True
False
What is repetition in a poem?
word that sound the same
words that begin with the same sound
words or phrases that are repeated
Rhyming is when some words
sound alike.
sound exactly the same.
are spelled the same way.
have the same definition.
What does rhyme mean?
having the same ending sound
a pattern of the beats, like music
words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings
All poems have to rhyme.
True
False
Rhyming sounds have to be spelled the same way.
True
False
Which of the following pairs of words rhyme?
Banana and Apple
Cry and Pie
Baby and Lady
Fast and Furious
Which of the following are examples of rhyme?
blocks and locks
fridge and cat
pat and scratch
Which word DOES NOT rhyme with the following three?
kite
light
rewrite
stoplight
meteorite
satellite
sigh
butterfly
shy
multiply
Mary had a little poodle
All day long she ate a __________
Which word rhymes with blue?
buke
home
goop
chew
The author's message or lesson learned in the poem
Topic
Theme
Answer
Fable
A piece of writing can have more than one theme.
True
False
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.
What is the central theme of this poem?
