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The Elements of Poetry

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A ____ is a literary work in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative

qualities to create a specific emotional or intellectual response in the reader or listener.

a)

Poem

b)

Alliteration

c)

Meter

d)

Simile

2.

A ______ is a group of lines in a poem, typically separated from others by a blank line. They are often defined by their rhyme scheme, meter, and number.

a)

Poem

b)

Stanza

c)

Meter

d)

Rhyme

3.

The _____ of a poem is its underlying message or central idea. It is often an

abstract concept that is explored through the use of specific images, symbols, and language.

a)

Idiom

b)

Foot

c)

Imagery

d)

Theme

4.

_______ refers to the use of language to create vivid sensory experiences for the reader or listener. This can include visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile.

a)

Foot

b)

Imagery

c)

Theme

d)

Metaphor

5.

A ____ is a unit of meter in poetry, consisting of one or more stressed and unstressed syllables.

a)

Acrostic

b)

Rhyme

c)

Foot

d)

Idiom

6.

A comparison between two things that are not literally related, without using "like" or "as", for example, "Love is a rose" or "His heart was a stone", is called a ________.

a)

Onomatopeia

b)

Alliteration

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

7.

A phrase or expression that has a figurative meaning that's different from its literal meaning, like "It's raining cats and dogs" means it's raining heavily, not that actual cats and dogs are falling from the sky, is an _____.

a)

Idiom

b)

Alliteration

c)

Rhyme

d)

Meter

8.

The _____ is the correspondence of sounds between words or the ending of words, usually at the end of lines in poetry.

a)

Imagery

b)

Theme

c)

Meter

d)

Rhyme

9.

The _____ is the rhythmic structure of a poem, created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line. It can help to establish a consistent beat and structure within the poem.

a)

Meter

b)

Rhyme

c)

Theme

d)

Stanza

10.

___________ are words that sound like the sound they are describing. For example, "buzz", "hiss" or "whisper".

a)

Repetition

b)

Onomatopeia

c)

Alliteration

d)

Simile

11.

_______ poems express personal feelings or thoughts, often in a musical and

emotional way.

a)

Narrative

b)

Sonnet

c)

Lyrical

d)

Limerick

12.

This is a type of poetry in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or phrase.

a)

Acrostic

b)

Blank Verse

c)

Free Verse

d)

Elegy

13.

What is this?

Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow

That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

a)

Cinquain

b)

Quatrain

c)

Tercet

d)

Couplet

14.

What is this?

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove,

A Maid whom there were none to praise

And very few to love

a)

Quatrain

b)

Cinquain

c)

Tercet

d)

Couplet

15.

What are these?

"Her cat is near the computer to keep an eye on the mouse."

"When my algebra teacher retired, he wasn’t ready for the aftermath."

a)

Alliterations

b)

Puns

c)

Similes

d)

Hyperboles

16.

What is this?

"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Irony

17.

What is this?

"The old man walked down the street, down the street, down the street"

a)

Ode

b)

Personification

c)

Irony

d)

Repetition

18.

What is this?

"Creeping as quietly as a mouse"

"Sly, like a fox"

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Haiku

d)

Blank Verse

19.

What is this?

An old silent pond

A frog jumps into the pond—

Splash! Silence again.

 

a)

Ode

b)

Limerick

c)

Haiku

d)

Sonnet

20.

What is this?

"Row after row with strict impunity

The headstones yield their names to the element,

The wind whirrs without recollection;

In the riven troughs the splayed leaves”

a)

Ode

b)

Limerick

c)

Haiku

d)

Sonnet