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WorksheetsPoetry Vocab Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Poetry
Areas on a page with no text or graphics; designed to provide a visual break and to give other elements on the page a greater impact; also known as negative space
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader
A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination.
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
Alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
A comparison not using like or as
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
Metaphor
A comparison using "like" or "as"
The internal organization of a poem's content
A comparison not using like or as
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Simile
Repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines
Where a line of poetry ends
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
A comparison using "like" or "as"
Imagery
Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
A comparison not using like or as
The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
White Space
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Areas on a page with no text or graphics; designed to provide a visual break and to give other elements on the page a greater impact; also known as negative space
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Language that has a metrical rhythm (or beat). Often, it also has rhyme (meter, rhyme)
Repetition
Extended metaphor
The internal organization of a poem's content
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract
Repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines
Tone
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Any writing that is not poetry
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines
Diction
The internal organization of a poem's content
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Stanza
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
The internal organization of a poem's content
Repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines
Spoken Word Poetry
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
Extended metaphor
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Blend of poetry and theater in which you use poetic elements and make it a performance, often uses body movements and gestures to help convey meaning
Symbol
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract
Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
Structure
No repeating patterns of syllables; no rhyme, conversational, modern
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader
The internal organization of a poem's content
Hyperbole
Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Anaphora
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
Repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Line Break
Where a line of poetry ends
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next
The internal organization of a poem's content
Juxtaposition
No repeating patterns of syllables; no rhyme, conversational, modern
Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Prose
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Any writing that is not poetry
Extended metaphor
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
