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WorksheetsThe Elements of Poetry
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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.
Poem
Alliteration
Meter
Simile
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.
Poem
Stanza
Meter
Rhyme
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.
Idiom
Foot
Imagery
Theme
_______ refers to the use of language to create vivid sensory experiences for the reader or listener. This can include visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile.
Foot
Imagery
Theme
Metaphor
A ____ is a unit of meter in poetry, consisting of one or more stressed and unstressed syllables.
Acrostic
Rhyme
Foot
Idiom
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 ________.
Onomatopeia
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
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 _____.
Idiom
Alliteration
Rhyme
Meter
The _____ is the correspondence of sounds between words or the ending of words, usually at the end of lines in poetry.
Imagery
Theme
Meter
Rhyme
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.
Meter
Rhyme
Theme
Stanza
___________ are words that sound like the sound they are describing. For example, "buzz", "hiss" or "whisper".
Repetition
Onomatopeia
Alliteration
Simile
_______ poems express personal feelings or thoughts, often in a musical and
emotional way.
Narrative
Sonnet
Lyrical
Limerick
This is a type of poetry in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or phrase.
Acrostic
Blank Verse
Free Verse
Elegy
What is this?
Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Cinquain
Quatrain
Tercet
Couplet
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
Quatrain
Cinquain
Tercet
Couplet
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."
Alliterations
Puns
Similes
Hyperboles
What is this?
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Irony
What is this?
"The old man walked down the street, down the street, down the street"
Ode
Personification
Irony
Repetition
What is this?
"Creeping as quietly as a mouse"
"Sly, like a fox"
Metaphor
Simile
Haiku
Blank Verse
What is this?
An old silent pond
A frog jumps into the pond—
Splash! Silence again.
Ode
Limerick
Haiku
Sonnet
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”
Ode
Limerick
Haiku
Sonnet
