WorksheetsPoetry Theory and Elements Quiz
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
A poem consisting of a single speaker expressing a state of mind or process or perception, feeling, emotion, or thought
Narrative
Lyric
Ode
Elegy
How does imagery help us understand the poetry?
By expressing how the author is feeling
Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel through words
By telling the mood
By using figurative language
What is Haiku?
a form of Japanese poetry
a type of small fish found in the Arctic ocean
a form of Chinese poetry
a form of Russian poetry
“There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause it's cold in there,”
What types of imagery used on the above lines?
Visual Imagery
Olfactory Imagery
Tactile Imagery
Auditory Imagery
Which question focuses on the diction of the poem?
What ambiguities in the poem allow for multiple interpretations?
How would you describe the author's choice of words?
What functions do pauses perform in the sound pattern?
What emotions do the images suggest?
Several lines grouped together in a poem is called..?
Repetition
Stanza
Poetry
Line
What is alliteration?
the repetition of a sound in the initial position of various words, or of a consonant sound within the words
the repetition of a sound in the initial position of various words, or of a vowel sound within the words
the repetition of harsh sound in the initial position of various words, or of a consonant sound within the words
another word for a tongue-twister
What does a poem always do?
rhythm and tone
uses imaginative language
rhymes
uses clear, simple language to get the facts across
What is the metrical feet of the following lines:
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot.
iambic
anapestic
dactylic
trochaic
one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed, known as ...?
iambic
dactylic
trochaic
spondaic
two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed, known as ...?
trochaic
anapestic
iambic
dactylic
"Stone walls do not a prison make, // nor iron bars a cage;"
is the example of...?
litotes
paradox
metaphor
hyperbole
What is the metrical feet of the following lines:
There they are, my fifty men and women
Naming me the fifty poems finished!
anapestic
trochaic
dactylic
iambic
Why did people used to use poems to tell stories?
a poem is much longer than a story
rhymes and the rhythm make poems easy to remember
a poem is harder to remember than a story
diction can accomodate the story
"The fortune is blind" is the example of .....?
personification
Allegory
Metonymy
Metaphor
What is rhyme?
when two words sound alike
a type of Chinese poetry
when two words start with the same letter
one of the elements of poetry and prose
The following sounds:
"revival-arrival; flatter-batter" are example of ....... rhyme.
feminine rhyme
perfect rhyme
masculine rhyme
half rhyme
What is assonance?
the repetition of vowel sounds.
the similar ending rhyme in poetry
the repetition of a sound in the initial position of various words, or of a consonant sound within the words
the repetition of harsh sound.
One unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, known as ...?
spondaic
pyrrhic
iambic
anapestic
The following sounds:
"foe-toe; meet-fleet; buffer-rougher"
are example of ....... rhyme.
feminine rhyme
eye-rhyme
perfect rhyme
half rhyme
What is the metrical feet of the following lines:
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
trochaic
anapestic
iambic
dactylic
What is imagery?
giving human qualities to an animal or objects
Whatever in all poem appeals to any of our senses
comparing one thing to another
something that overstatement
When you compare one thing to another by using 'like', 'as', 'seems' and 'than', you are using what?
simile
metaphor
synonym
personification
When you compare one thing to another that at least have one point in common ', you are using what?
simile
metaphor
personification
idiom
One stressed syllable followed by one unstressed known as ....
anapestic
trochaic
iambic
pyrrhic
Robert Frost said, "Poetry provides one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another."
This is an exaggeration, but it shrewdly suggests the importance of .....?
Symbols
Diction
Tone
Figurative language
“There is a place where the sidewalk ends and before the street begins,
and there the grass grows soft and white”
What types of imagery used on the above lines?
Olfactory
Visual Imagery
Internal Sensation
Gustatory Imagery
sputtering, gurgling, clanking, tapping, thumping.
What types of imagery used on the above lines?
Internal Sensation
Auditory Imagery
Olfactory Imagery
Visual Imagery
words that are used within a poem repeatedly to express a certain point
Consonance
Alliteration
repetition
Rhyme
Crash, ZOINK, Moo, BOOM, and POP are examples of
alliteration
Diction
onomatopoeia
personification
