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Poetry Vocab Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the term for the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

a)

Assonance

b)

Alliteration

c)

Consonance

d)

Enjambment

2.

Which term refers to a brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art?

a)

Ballad

b)

Symbol

c)

Allusion

d)

Stanza

3.

What is a story or narrative in poetic form called?

a)

Ballad

b)

Free Verse

c)

Meter

d)

Tone

4.

What is the term for the repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text?

a)

Consonance

b)

Assonance

c)

Enjambment

d)

Rhythm

5.

What is the author's specific word choice called?

a)

Diction

b)

Theme

c)

Symbol

d)

Tone

6.

What is the central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader?

a)

Tone

b)

Theme

c)

Symbol

d)

Rhythm

7.

What is poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter called?

a)

Free Verse

b)

Ballad

c)

Meter

d)

Stanza

8.

What is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words such as 'like' or 'as'?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Symbol

d)

Allusion

9.

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?

a)

Meter

b)

Rhythm

c)

Stanza

d)

Verse

10.

What is a word that sounds like what it means, such as 'buzz' or 'click'?

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Assonance

c)

Consonance

d)

Enjambment

11.

What is a single line of poetry called?

a)

Stanza

b)

Verse

c)

Meter

d)

Rhythm

12.

What is the term for the attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character?

a)

Tone

b)

Theme

c)

Symbol

d)

Diction

13.

What is a unified group of lines in poetry, often marked by spacing between sections of the poem?

a)

Stanza

b)

Verse

c)

Meter

d)

Rhythm

14.

What is the term for the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Assonance

c)

Consonance

d)

Enjambment

15.

What is the term for when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line?

a)

Enjambment

b)

Stanza

c)

Verse

d)

Rhythm