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Poetry Test Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What term means "how we are made to feel as readers?"

a)

verse

b)

mood

c)

rhyme

d)

stanza

2.

What term means, "a grouping of four or more lines of poetry that includes a fixed length, meter, or rhyme arrangement."

a)

stanza

b)

mood

c)

syllable

d)

verse

3.

What term means, "repetition of words with similar sounds that occur at the end of a verse of poetry?"

a)

verse

b)

syllable

c)

stanza

d)

rhyme

4.

What term means, "a line of poetry?"

a)

syllable

b)

verse

c)

rhyme

d)

mood

5.

a word or part of a word with one sounded vowel

a)

verse

b)

syllable

c)

rhyme

d)

mood

6.

What is, "a sound pattern for the verses that gives poetry rhythm?"

a)

similes

b)

feet

c)

meter

d)

metaphor

7.

What is a direct comparison of two unlike objects?

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

meter

8.

What is a literary term that uses all five senses to create a vivid image in the reader's mind? (think popcorn!)

a)

metaphor

b)

sensory imagery

c)

feet

d)

similes

9.

What is a group of syllables that includes only one stressed syllable?

a)

metaphor

b)

feet

c)

similes

d)

personification

10.

What is a comparison of two things using like or as?

a)

metaphor

b)

sensory imagery

c)

simile

d)

feet

11.

what is, "a figure of speech which an inanimate object is given HUMANlike qualities?"

a)

similes

b)

metaphors

c)

feet

d)

personifciation

12.

A Japanese poem that has three lines, syllable count of 5/7/5, and reflects nature

a)

narrative poem

b)

Haiku

c)

Cinquain

d)

Free Verse

13.

A poem that has no restraints or requirements and are meant to reflect the poet's thought and ideas

a)

cinquain

b)

narrative poem

c)

free verse

d)

limerick

14.

A fun poem that has five lines. The first, second, and fifth lines have 3 feet and rhyme with each other; the third and fourth lines have 2 feet and rhyme with each other.

a)

free verse

b)

Haiku

c)

Limerick

d)

Narrative poem

15.

A poem that tells a story. There are no requirements regarding syllable count or rhyme scheme.

a)

Haiku

b)

Limerick

c)

Free Verse

d)

Narrative poem

16.

Simile or Metaphor?: Love is a battlefield.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

17.

When a series of words in a row have the same first consonant sound: “The cat climbed up the curtain

a)

pun

b)

alliteration

c)

stanza

d)

verse

18.

The little boy kept playing with the kitchen pots and all Mom heard was, “Bang, bang, bang!” Is an example of what?

a)

verse

b)

stanza

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

limerick

19.

The unit of measurement in 1 or 2 syllables that we use to count meter.

a)

meter

b)

foot (or feet)

c)

verse

d)

stanza

20.

A poem that is light and humorous, usually with 5 anapestic lines in the rhyme scheme of AABBA

a)

Limerick

b)

Haiku

c)

Cinquian

d)

Simile

21.

Repeating words for emphasis in a poem or story.

a)

simile

b)

stanza

c)

metahpor

d)

repitition

22.

There was a storm approaching. The clouds looked angry and the wind was screaming through the trees…is an example of?

a)

personification

b)

rhyme

c)

meter

d)

simile

23.

What is, "images that are created in the mind while reading or looking at art."

a)

imagery

b)

stanza

c)

verse

d)

metahpor

24.

“Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers” is an example of what?

a)

imagery

b)

metaphor

c)

stanza

d)

alliteration

25.

A word that ends with the same sound as another word, like hop and stop.

a)

stanza

b)

rhyme

c)

meter

d)

foot