WorksheetsKnowledge Check: Caesuras, Enjambment, & Endstops
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
When a sentence in a poem flows on to the next line in a poem it is called...
Enjambment
Stanza
Line
Caesura
What is a natural pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry?
caesura
kenning
alliteration
imagery
This dramatic/poetic technique creates unnatural stops within a line. It reads like a hiccup.
end-stop
caesura
enjambment
apostrophe
This poetic/dramatic technique indicates haste and speed on the part of the speaker. It is like a run-on sentence where thoughts continue from one line to the next.
end-stop
enjambment
caesura
metaphor
When a line in a poem moves to another line without a punctuation mark in between.
e.g. Before the sunrise
a chain of red clouds rise
and all else is in the darkness.
symbolism
metaphor
enjambment
The red punctuation marks in the lines below are examples of ____.
Roses, roses! Two bucks a bunch! They say
The boys in the street, ready to sell you.
Caesura
Metaphor
Personification
Enjambment
The red punctuation marks in the lines below are examples of ___ and ___.
I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us – don’t tell!
They’d banish – you know!
caesura & end-stop
enjambment & metaphor
end-stop & enjambment
The following lines of poetry are an example of _____.
“April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."
caesura
enjambment
The following lines of poetry are an example of _____.
Rolling through the field in the
dead
of winter
Enjambment
Alliteration
Personification
Which of the following pairs of lines from Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” contains an example of enjambment?
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
“Stay where you are until our backs are turned!”
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
