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Year 8 Poetry terminology

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What name do we give to the way a poem is read / the feelings in a poem?

a)

Voice

b)

Feelings

c)

Tone

d)

Dialogue

2.

What are we commenting on when we evaluate how the poem is organised?

a)

Style

b)

Substance

c)

Suspense

d)

Structure

3.

What do we call the repetition of a vowel sound?

a)

Siblance

b)

Alliteration

c)

Assonance

d)

Consonance

4.

A metaphor is ...?

a)

Saying something is something it is not

b)

Saying soemthing is like something it is not

c)

Saying something sounds like something else

d)

Saying something rhymes with something else

5.

'The car danced across the icy road' is an example of what?

a)

Simile

b)

Personification

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Metaphor

6.

What is enjambment​?

a)

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human

b)

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line or stanza

c)

A pause near the middle of a line

d)

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind

7.

What technque involves the beginning of lines of poetry starting the same?

a)

Anaphora

b)

Cataphora

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

8.

What do you call a paragraph in poetry?

(a)  

9.

What is a caesura?

a)

A pause near the middle of a line.

b)

A pause at the end of a line.

c)

No pauses in the whole poem.

d)

Pauses after every word.

10.

What is juxtaposition

a)

Putting something in the right place

b)

Just a temporary situation

c)

Two things placed together with contrasting effect

d)

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