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WorksheetsPoetry Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 1hrs 13mins
What is poetry?
A form of entertainment
A way of making art with language
A method of recording history
A tool for education
According to our notes, what do poems express?
animal emotions
Personal opinions/ arguments
Huge ideas or feelings
Scientific facts
What role do 'Speakers' play in poetry as in our notes?
They write the poems
They talk alot
They are the voice we hear in a poem
They organize the poem's structure
What is the purpose of 'Line breaks' in poetry?
To indicate the end of the poem
To separate stanzas
To stress the rhythm or change appearance
To make the poem rhyme
The purpose of a cinquain is...
to be fun
to show off words
to describe a topic
to collect information
buzz, clink, toll, hiss
metaphor
personification
onomatopoeia
meter
simile
In poetry, what is "meter?"
The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables
The length of a poem
Words that sound the same
Sophisticated vocabulary
- The first letters in a line/verse spell a word if you read vertically
acrostic
epic
diamante
haiku
ode
A stanza that has three lines.
couplet
tercet
quatrain
octave
I was so small,
but I got a treat.
I caught a baseball
in my seat.
What rhyme scheme is used in the poem?
AABB
ABAB
This poem is an example of
free verse
haiku
limerick
ballad
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
gloomy
angry
fearful
calm
The tone of a poem is the poet's
attitude toward the subject and audience
word choice and how it affects the images
sentence structure and punctuation choices
pattern of rhythm throughout each stanza
This poem is an example of a
free verse
haiku
limerick
ballad
This poem is an example of a
free verse
haiku
limerick
ballad
This poem is an example of
free verse
limerick
haiku
ballad
