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WorksheetsElements of Poetry Quiz
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is the main difference between poetry and prose?
Poetry uses ordinary language.
Poetry is longer than prose.
Prose is written in stanzas.
Poetry captures intense experiences in a musical language.
What is a speaker in poetry?
A fictional character or voice that talks to the reader.
The audience reading the poem.
The poet themselves.
The narrator of a story.
What is a stanza?
The rhyme scheme of a poem.
A group of lines forming a unit.
The title of a poem.
A single line of poetry.
Which of the following is an example of a simile?
The moon is a white sliver.
A spider sewed at night.
Does it stink like rotten meat?
You’ve asked me a million times!
What does personification do in poetry?
Creates a rhyme scheme.
Describes sensory details.
Gives human-like characteristics to non-human things.
Compares two unlike things.
What is hyperbole?
A form of imagery.
A type of rhyme.
An exaggeration for emphasis.
A comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
What is alliteration?
Repetition of vowel sounds.
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
A type of rhyme scheme.
A figure of speech.
What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
ababcdcdefefgg
aabbccddeeffgg
abcabcabcabc
abcdabcdabcd
What is iambic pentameter?
A type of rhyme scheme.
A form of free verse.
A type of imagery.
A line of verse with 5 metrical feet.
What is the mood of a poem?
The emotional atmosphere created by the poet.
The poet's attitude toward the subject.
The structure of the poem.
The rhyme scheme of the poem.
What defines narrative poetry?
It expresses personal thoughts and feelings.
It uses a specific rhyme scheme.
It is always written in free verse.
It tells a story.
What is a haiku?
A poem that tells a story.
A poem with 14 lines.
A poem that captures a moment in nature with 17 syllables.
A type of narrative poetry.
What is free verse?
Poetry with a fixed meter and rhyme.
A type of narrative poetry.
A poem that follows a strict structure.
Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter or rhyme.
What is the purpose of diction in poetry?
To create a rhyme scheme.
To unlock the tone or mood of the poem.
To tell a story.
To describe sensory details.
