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Poetry Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 1hrs 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is poetry?

a)

A form of entertainment

b)

A way of making art with language

c)

A method of recording history

d)

A tool for education

2.

According to our notes, what do poems express?

a)

animal emotions

b)

Personal opinions/ arguments

c)

Huge ideas or feelings

d)

Scientific facts

3.

What role do 'Speakers' play in poetry as in our notes?

a)

They write the poems

b)

They talk alot

c)

They are the voice we hear in a poem

d)

They organize the poem's structure

4.

What is the purpose of 'Line breaks' in poetry?

a)

To indicate the end of the poem

b)

To separate stanzas

c)

To stress the rhythm or change appearance

d)

To make the poem rhyme

5.
A sonnet contains _____ lines. 
a)
12
b)
4
c)
14
d)
16
6.
a poem that does not have rhyme and does not have meter; has no restrictions
a)
limerick
b)
quatrain
c)
stanza
d)
free verse
7.
a group of lines that might be thought of as a "paragraph" in prose; 
a)
refrain
b)
stanza
c)
meter
d)
rhythm
8.
a narrative poem of longer length; usually tells a sad or tragic story; contains many stanzas
a)
couplet
b)
haiku
c)
rhyme
d)
ballad
9.

The purpose of a cinquain is...

a)

to be fun

b)

to show off words

c)

to describe a topic

d)

to collect information

10.

buzz, clink, toll, hiss

a)

metaphor

b)

personification

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

meter

e)

simile

11.

In poetry, what is "meter?"

a)

The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables

b)

The length of a poem

c)

Words that sound the same

d)

Sophisticated vocabulary

12.
  • The first letters in a line/verse spell a word if you read vertically
a)

acrostic

b)

epic

c)

diamante

d)

haiku

e)

ode

13.

A stanza that has three lines.

a)

couplet

b)

tercet

c)

quatrain

d)

octave

14.

I was so small,

but I got a treat.

I caught a baseball

in my seat.


What rhyme scheme is used in the poem?

a)

AABB

b)

ABAB

15.

This poem is an example of

a)

free verse

b)

haiku

c)

limerick

d)

ballad

16.

Choose the word that best describes the tone in the passage:

It had been another long day at achool.

I sighed as I started my homework,

Realizing

It would take forever to finish

a)

gloomy

b)

angry

c)

fearful

d)

calm

17.

The tone of a poem is the poet's

a)

attitude toward the subject and audience

b)

word choice and how it affects the images

c)

sentence structure and punctuation choices

d)

pattern of rhythm throughout each stanza

18.

This poem is an example of a

a)

free verse

b)

haiku

c)

limerick

d)

ballad

19.

This poem is an example of a

a)

free verse

b)

haiku

c)

limerick

d)

ballad

20.

This poem is an example of

a)

free verse

b)

limerick

c)

haiku

d)

ballad