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Poetry Vocabulary Basics

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

One single line of a poem arranged in a metrical pattern is called?

a)

Verse

b)

Stanza

c)

Form

d)

enjambment

2.

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

a)

Metonymy

b)

Lyric

c)

Rhyme Scheme

d)

Synesthesia

3.

The dictionary definition of a word; its literal meaning is known as the ________

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Denotation

c)

Connotation

d)

Analogy

4.

Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea is known as?

a)

Free Verse

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Form

5.

A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it is called?

a)

Connotation

b)

Metaphor

c)

Allegory

d)

Metonymy

6.

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 _______

a)

Stanza

b)

Ballad

c)

Sonnet

d)

Tone

7.

The arrangement or method used to convey the content, such as free verse, ballad, haiku, etc. In other words, the “way-it-is-said.”

a)

Stanza

b)

Connotation

c)

Analogy

d)

Form

8.

An outrageous exaggeration used for effect is known as?

a)

Pun

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Synechdoche

9.

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?

a)

Scansion

b)

Rhyme

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Rhythm

10.

The emotional, psychological or social overtones of a word; its implications and associations apart from its literal meaning is called a words _______

a)

Allusion

b)

Connotation

c)

Denotation

d)

Symbol

11.

A brief reference to some person, historical event, work of art, or Biblical or mythological situation or character is called an?

a)

Allusion

b)

Symbol

c)

Cliche

d)

Euphemism

12.

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.

a)

Rhyme

b)

Assonance

c)

Cacaphony

d)

Repetition

13.

An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance is called a?

a)

Contrast

b)

Line

c)

Simile

d)

Symbol

14.

A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.

a)

Irony

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Ambiguity

d)

Synecdoche

15.

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines are known as?

a)

Repetition

b)

Alliteration

c)

Assonance

d)

Consonance

16.

Repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines is known as?

a)

Euphony

b)

Rhyme

c)

Allusion

d)

Consonance

17.

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?

a)

Rhythm

b)

Rhyme

c)

Iambic

d)

Dactyl

18.

The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect is called?

a)

Cliche

b)

Pattern

c)

Repetition

d)

Trochee