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WorksheetsPoetry Terms Review
Total questions: 43
Worksheet time: 34mins
The following is an example of _____________:
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
Blank Verse
Quatrain
Onomatopoeia
Couplet
The following is an example of ____________:
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!
Irish Jig
Limerick
Folk Tale
Elegy
The following is an example of ________:
An old silent pond
A frog jumps into the pond—
Splash! Silence again.
Trochee
Elegy
Limerick
Haiku
The following is an example of ____________:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Assonance
Consonance
Repetition
Synecdoche
The following is an example of _________:
I cry your mercy—pity—love!—aye, love!
Stanza
Quatrain
Couplet
Line
The following is an example of ____________:
Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Quatrain
Couplet
Line
Onomateopoeia
The following is an example of ________:
As of some one gently rapping, tapping at my chamber door.
External Rhyme
Close Rhyme
End Rhyme
Opposite Rhyme
The following is an example of ____________:
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know …
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love —
I and my Annabel Lee…
Repetition
Refrain
Epic
Haiku
The following is an example of ________:
“To an Athlete Dying Young”
Eulogy
Elegy
Obituary
Ode
The following is an example of ________:
The Odyssey
Stanza
Play
Limerick
Epic
The following is an example of __________:
He clasps the crag with crooked hands:
Close to the sun it lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, it stands.
Line
Stanza
Quatrain
Couplet
The following is an example of __________:
The best kinds of people are warm and kind,
They are always there and they never mind.
The best kinds of people smile and embrace,
They support you with strength and grace.
Repetition
Refrain
Connotation
Annotation
The following is an example of __________:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (iambic pentameter)
Foot
Rhyme
Meter
Rhythm
The following is an example of _________:
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
Onomateopoeia
Sound Words
Internal Rhyme
External Rhyme
The following is an example of ______________:
Cuddly
Acrobatic
Tenacious and terrifying
Softly purring
Limerick
Acrostic
Ode
Elegy
The following is an example of _________:
When John Henry was a little tiny baby Sitting on his mama's knee, He picked
up a hammer and a little piece of steel Saying, "Hammer's going to be the death
of me, Lord, Lord, Hammer's going to be the death of me."
John Henry was a man just six feet high,
Nearly two feet and a half across his breast. He'd hammer with a nine-pound hammer all day And never get tired and
want to rest, Lord, Lord, And never get tired and want to rest
Ode
Ballad
Elegy
Acrostic
The following is an example of ____________:
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Trochee
Iamb
Dactyl
Spondee
The following is an example of ________:
I went to town to buy a gown.
I took the car, and it wasn't far.
I had a cat who wore a hat.
He looked cool but felt the fool.
Internal Rhyme
Repetition
Refrain
Lyric
(a) : a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line for a word or words
(a) : the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words
(a) : in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
(a) : a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
(a) : Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
(a) : two rhyming words that are consecutive or very close together in a phrase or line
(a) : two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
(a) : a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead
(a) : a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation
(a) : a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
(a) : a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of 5, 7, and 5, traditionally evoking images of the natural world
(a) : a metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable
(a) : a rhyme involving a word in the middle of line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next
(a) : a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines, rhyming AABBA
(a) : a basic structural component of a poem
(a) : expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms
(a) : the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry and gives rhythm and regularity to poetry
(a) : the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
(a) : writing that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanza structure
(a) : a person who writes poems
(a) : a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus
(a) : a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer
(a) : correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry
(a) : a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse
(a) : writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme
