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Poetry - Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses. *

a)

meter

b)

stanza

c)

simile

d)

imagery

2.

The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words

a)

rhyme

b)

simile

c)

rhythm

d)

stress

3.

A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme.

a)

verse

b)

chorus

c)

stanza

d)

simile

4.

A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than".

a)

metaphor

b)

analogy

c)

personification

d)

simile

5.

an implied comparison in which words/characteristics that are ordinarily applied to one thing are applied to another

a)

metaphor

b)

metnoymy

c)

simile

d)

analogy

6.

The use of words which imitate sound.

a)

alliteration

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

assonance

d)

consonance

7.

When different lines have the same or a similar repeated structure

a)

syntax

b)

exaggeration

c)

parallelism

d)

repetition

8.

The repetition of similar vowel sounds

a)

alliteration

b)

sibilance

c)

consonance

d)

assonance

9.

The speaker, or "teller", of the poem.

a)

protagonist

b)

persona

c)

personification

d)

singer

10.

The repetition of initial sounds.

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

consonance

d)

sibilance

11.

A pause in the middle of a line of verse is called...

a)

enjambement

b)

caesura

c)

run-on

d)

stop

12.

A figure of speech that gives animals, ideas, or inanimate objects with human traits or abilities is known as.

a)

simile

b)

pathetic fallacy

c)

personification

d)

metonymy

13.

If a poet does not put a punctuation mark at the end of a line and simply continues the sentence

a)

enjambement

b)

caesura

c)

apostrophe

d)

anaphora

14.

 The repetition of a word or phrase appears in a set place in this way, often at the beginning of a line. 

a)

apostrophe

b)

anaphora

c)

alliteration

d)

assonance

15.

A figure of speech in which a character or speaker addresses someone who is absent.

a)

Assonance

b)

Anaphora

c)

Apostrophe

d)

Alliteration