WorksheetsPoetry Vocabulary Basics
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 6mins
One single line of a poem arranged in a metrical pattern is called?
Verse
Stanza
Form
enjambment
The pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines is known as
Metonymy
Lyric
Rhyme Scheme
Synesthesia
The dictionary definition of a word; its literal meaning is known as the ________
Hyperbole
Denotation
Connotation
Analogy
Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea is known as?
Free Verse
Simile
Personification
Form
A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it is called?
Connotation
Metaphor
Allegory
Metonymy
A division of a poem created by arranging the lines into a unit, often repeated in the same pattern of meter and rhyme throughout the poem is a _______
Stanza
Ballad
Sonnet
Tone
The arrangement or method used to convey the content, such as free verse, ballad, haiku, etc. In other words, the “way-it-is-said.”
Stanza
Connotation
Analogy
Form
An outrageous exaggeration used for effect is known as?
Pun
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Synechdoche
This is the one device most commonly associated with poetry by the general public. Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike, including the final vowel sound and everything following it, is called?
Scansion
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
Rhythm
The emotional, psychological or social overtones of a word; its implications and associations apart from its literal meaning is called a words _______
Allusion
Connotation
Denotation
Symbol
A brief reference to some person, historical event, work of art, or Biblical or mythological situation or character is called an?
Allusion
Symbol
Cliche
Euphemism
Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. These should be in sounds that are accented, or stressed, rather than in vowel sounds that are unaccented.
Rhyme
Assonance
Cacaphony
Repetition
An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance is called a?
Contrast
Line
Simile
Symbol
A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.
Irony
Hyperbole
Ambiguity
Synecdoche
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines are known as?
Repetition
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines is known as?
Euphony
Rhyme
Allusion
Consonance
Although the general public is seldom directly conscious of it, nearly everyone responds on some level to the organization of speech into verbal stresses that become a regular pattern of accented syllables separated by unaccented syllables. This is known as?
Rhythm
Rhyme
Iambic
Dactyl
The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect is called?
Cliche
Pattern
Repetition
Trochee
