WorksheetsPoetry Terms
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
What term refers to a type of metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable?
A) Trochee
B) Spondee
C) Anapest
D) Dactyl
What poetic device is exemplified by the following phrase: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills."?
A) Anaphora
B) Epistrophe
C) Epanalepsis
D) Antimetabole
What poetic device is exemplified by the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword"
A) Metonymy
B) Synecdoche
C) Metaphor
D) Personification
What poetic device is exemplified by the following phrase: "fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese"?
A) Assonance
B) Consonance
C) Alliteration
D) Enjambment
What term refers to the use of two or more simultaneous but independent rhythms in a line of poetry?
A) Prosody
B) Enjambment
C) Synecdoche
D) Polysyndeton
What poetic device is exemplified by the following phrase: "all hands on deck" or "wheels" meaning a car?
A) Metonymy
B) Synecdoche
C) Metaphor
D) Personification
What term refers to a type of rhyme in which the stressed vowel sounds are the same but the consonant sounds that follow them are different?
A) Assonance
B) Consonance
C) Eye rhyme
D) Internal rhyme
What term refers to the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences?
A) Anaphora
B) Epistrophe
C) Epanalepsis
D) Antimetabole
Match the poetry meter with the definitions
Iamb
first syllable unaccented and the second accented
duh DUH
Trochee
first syllable accented and the second unaccented
DUH duh
Dactyl
first syllable accented and the second and third unaccented
DUH duh duh
Anapest
first two syllables unaccented and the third syllable accented
duh duh DUH
Spondee
two-syllable rhyming pattern, but both are stressed
DUH DUH
What term refers to a type of poem that tells a story, often with a plot, characters, and dialogue?
A) Sonnet
B) Haiku
C) Epic
D) Ghazal
What term refers to a type of metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables?
A) Trochee
B) Spondee
C) Anapest
D) Dactyl
What term refers to a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or the whole is used to represent a part?
A) Metonymy
B) Synecdoche
C) Zeugma
D) Chiasmus
What term refers to the use of language that is deliberately ambiguous or unclear, often for comic effect?
A) Ambiguity
B) Paradox
C) Irony
D) Puns
What term refers to a type of rhyme in which the words have the same spelling but different sounds and meanings?
A) Homophone
B) Homograph
C) Homonym
D) Heteronym
What term refers to a type of poetry that originated in Japan and consists of three lines with a syllable count of 5-7-5?
A) Villanelle
B) Rondeau
C) Haiku
D) Pantoum
