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Poetry Types and Techniques Vocabulary

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Poetry focuses on the expression of feelings and ideas by using distinctive style and rhythm

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Poetry is its own genre of writing

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Poetry must rhyme

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Poetry was initially...

a)

written

b)

performed

c)

spoken

d)

sung

5.

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

a)

Limerick

b)

Lyric

c)

Sonnet

d)

Haiku

6.

a poem written in 14 lines which can be broken into 4 parts called quatrains

a)

Limerick

b)

Lyric

c)

Sonnet

d)

Haiku

7.

a humorous, often nonsense poem. It has 5 lines: lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme; and lines 3 and 4 rhyme

a)

Limerick

b)

Found Poetry

c)

Sonnet

d)

Ode

8.

a poem written in 17 syllables. Lines 1 and 3 have five syllables while line 2 has seven syllables. It is usually about nature.

a)

Limerick

b)

Haiku

c)

Sonnet

d)

Ode

9.

a poem that does not conform to any fixed meter or rhyme scheme.

a)

Universe

b)

Unusual verse

c)

All verse

d)

Free verse

10.

a lyric poem that often praises the subject is an...

a)

Limerick

b)

Lyric

c)

Ode

d)

Narrative

11.

the art form of picking and choosing words that resonate with the artist’s vision

a)

Lost poetry

b)

Found poetry

12.

what poetic technique uses the repetition of a consonant sound, especially in the beginning of a word

a)

Metaphor

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Alliteration

13.

Sally sells seashells by the seashore is an example of what poetic technique?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Similie

14.

Dr. Seuss used this literary technique by using words that a word that makes its own sound when pronounced.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Similie

15.

This is an example of what kind of poem?

a)

Ode

b)

Free verse

c)

Haiku

d)

Sonnet

16.

William Shakespeare is known for writing this kind of poem

a)

Ode

b)

Free verse

c)

Limerick

d)

Sonnet

17.

This image is an example of what kind of poem?

a)

Found poetry

b)

Blackout poetry

c)

Free verse

d)

Narrative

18.

"Her eyes were moons and her freckles were stars" is an example of...

a)

metaphor

b)

similie

c)

Onomatopoeia

19.

"Her words cut my heart like a knife cuts butter" is an example of...

a)

metaphor

b)

similie

c)

Onomatopoeia

20.

The author's attitude toward a subject is the...

a)

irony

b)

tone

c)

rhyme scheme

d)

theme