WorksheetsPoetry Types and Techniques Vocabulary
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Poetry focuses on the expression of feelings and ideas by using distinctive style and rhythm
True
False
Poetry is its own genre of writing
True
False
Poetry must rhyme
True
False
Poetry was initially...
written
performed
spoken
sung
What type of poem is used to express emotions or feelings. It has a specific rhyme scheme that makes it have a song-like quality
Limerick
Lyric
Sonnet
Haiku
a poem written in 14 lines which can be broken into 4 parts called quatrains
Limerick
Lyric
Sonnet
Haiku
a humorous, often nonsense poem. It has 5 lines: lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme; and lines 3 and 4 rhyme
Limerick
Found Poetry
Sonnet
Ode
a poem written in 17 syllables. Lines 1 and 3 have five syllables while line 2 has seven syllables. It is usually about nature.
Limerick
Haiku
Sonnet
Ode
a poem that does not conform to any fixed meter or rhyme scheme.
Universe
Unusual verse
All verse
Free verse
a lyric poem that often praises the subject is an...
Limerick
Lyric
Ode
Narrative
the art form of picking and choosing words that resonate with the artist’s vision
Lost poetry
Found poetry
what poetic technique uses the repetition of a consonant sound, especially in the beginning of a word
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Sally sells seashells by the seashore is an example of what poetic technique?
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Similie
Dr. Seuss used this literary technique by using words that a word that makes its own sound when pronounced.
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Similie
This is an example of what kind of poem?
Ode
Free verse
Haiku
Sonnet
William Shakespeare is known for writing this kind of poem
Ode
Free verse
Limerick
Sonnet
This image is an example of what kind of poem?
Found poetry
Blackout poetry
Free verse
Narrative
"Her eyes were moons and her freckles were stars" is an example of...
metaphor
similie
Onomatopoeia
"Her words cut my heart like a knife cuts butter" is an example of...
metaphor
similie
Onomatopoeia
The author's attitude toward a subject is the...
irony
tone
rhyme scheme
theme
