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Poetry Terms to Know

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is one main difference between poetry and prose (complete sentences and paragraphs)?

a)

words

b)

teach a theme

c)

form/structure

d)

figurative language

2.

Which of the following is NOT a sound device?

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

consonance

c)

assonance

d)

metaphor

3.

Define Rhyme Scheme

a)

the repetition of the same or similar sounds, usually in stressed syllables at the end of lines, but sometimes with a line.

b)

the rhyming pattern that is created at the end of lines of poetry

c)

the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words

d)

words that are used to represent particular sounds

4.

A poet refers to the Bible's Garden of Eden. This is an example of...

a)

symbolism

b)

allusion

c)

alliteration

d)

personification

5.

The crUmbling thUnder of seas" is an example of...

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

assonance

c)

consonance

d)

alliteration

6.

The feelings or emotion the author's word choices evoke in the READER is known as...

a)

theme

b)

tone

c)

mood

d)

ethos

7.

When the poets use words that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell, he/she/they are using

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

imagery

d)

personification

8.

True/False: Poems must include rhyme.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Which of the five senses does following poem excerpt use the most:

They silently inhale

the clover-scented gale,

And the vapors that arise

From the well-watered and smoking soil

?

a)

sight

b)

sound

c)

smell

d)

touch

10.

"Beef" and "Streets" from Tupac's song "Dear Mama" are an example of which sound device?

When I was young me and my mama had beef

Seventeen years old kicked me out on the streets

a)

meter

b)

assonance

c)

consonance

d)

alliteration