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High School Poetry Terms #1

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which vocabulary word is being defined?


The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

rhythm

d)

alliteration

2.

Which vocabulary word is being defined?


The use of words that imitate sound?

a)

alliteration

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

3.

Which vocabulary word is being defined?


The repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words.

a)

metaphor

b)

personification

c)

alliteration

d)

rhyme

4.

Which vocabulary word is being defined?


Uses like or as to compare two unlikely things

a)

rhythm

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

5.

Which vocabulary word is being defined?


A three line Japanese verse poem

a)

haiku poem

b)

concrete poem

c)

narrative poem

d)

lyric poem

6.

Which vocabulary word is being defined?


Poems are shaped to look like their subjects?

a)

lyric

b)

narrative

c)

concrete

d)

limerick

7.
A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space is a (this is like the paragraph of poetry)...
a)
stanza
b)
refrain
c)
ballad
d)
chorus
8.

Definition for Metaphor

a)

a comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as

b)

words that end in the same sound

c)

sound words

9.
What is the symbolic significance of this symbol?
a)
A book filled with religious stories.
b)
faith, God, religion.
c)
Death, darkness, sadness, race, politics.
d)
A book of stories of the future.
10.
Symbols represent...
a)
...abstract concepts.
b)
...layers of meaning.
c)
...something other than the object itself.
d)
...All of the above.
11.
a poem that does not have any rhyme 
a)
narrative
b)
concrete
c)
haiku
d)
free verse