WorksheetsPoetry Vocab Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the term for the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?
Assonance
Alliteration
Consonance
Enjambment
Which term refers to a brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art?
Ballad
Symbol
Allusion
Stanza
What is a story or narrative in poetic form called?
Ballad
Free Verse
Meter
Tone
What is the term for the repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text?
Consonance
Assonance
Enjambment
Rhythm
What is the author's specific word choice called?
Diction
Theme
Symbol
Tone
What is the central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader?
Tone
Theme
Symbol
Rhythm
What is poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter called?
Free Verse
Ballad
Meter
Stanza
What is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words such as 'like' or 'as'?
Metaphor
Simile
Symbol
Allusion
What is the measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line?
Meter
Rhythm
Stanza
Verse
What is a word that sounds like what it means, such as 'buzz' or 'click'?
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Consonance
Enjambment
What is a single line of poetry called?
Stanza
Verse
Meter
Rhythm
What is the term for the attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character?
Tone
Theme
Symbol
Diction
What is a unified group of lines in poetry, often marked by spacing between sections of the poem?
Stanza
Verse
Meter
Rhythm
What is the term for the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words?
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Enjambment
What is the term for when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line?
Enjambment
Stanza
Verse
Rhythm
