WorksheetsUnderstanding Poetry Terms
Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 29mins
What is a piece of writing that conveys a message through language and often relates to culture, art, nature, or life?
Poem
Speaker
Line
Stanza
What do we call the voice behind the poem; the character or narrator saying the poem?
Poem
Speaker
Line
Stanza
What is a grouping of lines that form a unit in a poem?
Poem
Speaker
Line
Stanza
What is a four-line stanza or grouping of four lines of verse?
Couplet
Quatrain
Cinquain
Tercet
What do we call two successive lines of poetry, often rhymed?
Couplet
Quatrain
Cinquain
Tercet
What is a poem or stanza composed of five lines?
Couplet
Quatrain
Cinquain
Tercet
What is a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme?
Couplet
Quatrain
Cinquain
Tercet
What is a specific line or lines that are repeated in a poem?
Refrain
Symbol
Theme
Mood
What is an object or action that stands for something beyond itself?
Refrain
Symbol
Theme
Mood
What is the message or idea that an author expresses in a poem about the subject?
Refrain
Symbol
Theme
Mood
What is the feeling(s) and atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader?
Refrain
Symbol
Theme
Mood
What is the attitude of the speaker or author as interpreted by the reader?
Tone
Imagery
Juxtaposition
Oxymoron
What is descriptive language that invokes any of the five senses to create a set of mental images for the reader?
Tone
Imagery
Juxtaposition
Oxymoron
What is when two things are placed close together to create a contrasting effect?
Tone
Imagery
Juxtaposition
Oxymoron
What is a combination of two words that appear to contradict each other?
Tone
Imagery
Juxtaposition
Oxymoron
What is a play on words usually when a single word with more than one meaning is used humorously?
Pun
Paradox
Allusion
Proverb
What is a situation that appears to be contradictory and absurd but contains some measure of truth?
Pun
Paradox
Allusion
Proverb
What is a subtle, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, artwork, or movement?
Pun
Paradox
Allusion
Proverb
What is a short saying that states a very general truth or piece of advice?
Pun
Paradox
Allusion
Proverb
What is a basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables?
Poetic foot
Iamb
Iambic pentameter
Enjambment
What is a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable?
Poetic foot
Iamb
Iambic pentameter
Enjambment
What is a traditional form of rising meter consisting of lines containing five iambic feet, or ten syllables?
Poetic foot
Iamb
Iambic pentameter
Enjambment
What is the continuation of a phrase or sentence from one line to another without an end-stop?
Poetic foot
Iamb
Iambic pentameter
Enjambment
What is a technique in which successive phrases or lines begin with the same words?
Anaphora
Metonymy
Simile
Metaphor
What is a word or phrase that replaces the name of an object or concept for another to which it is related?
Anaphora
Metonymy
Simile
Metaphor
What is the comparison of two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as'?
Anaphora
Metonymy
Simile
Metaphor
What is the comparison of two unlike things that share something in common without using the words 'like' or 'as'?
Anaphora
Metonymy
Simile
Metaphor
What is when an idea or object is given human attributes and/or feelings as if it were human?
Personification
Idiom
Hyperbole
Irony
What is a common expression whose fixed order has a particular meaning that cannot be determined from its literal meaning?
Personification
Idiom
Hyperbole
Irony
What is an overtly exaggerated statement or claim?
Personification
Idiom
Hyperbole
Irony
What is when contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true?
Personification
Idiom
Hyperbole
Irony
What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words?
Rhyme
Rhyme scheme
Slant rhyme
Rhythm
What is the ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem?
Rhyme
Rhyme scheme
Slant rhyme
Rhythm
What is a rhyme formed with words with similar but not identical sounds?
Rhyme
Rhyme scheme
Slant rhyme
Rhythm
What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line?
Rhyme
Rhyme scheme
Slant rhyme
Rhythm
What is a regular pattern of rhythm?
Meter
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?
Meter
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
What is repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase?
Meter
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
What is the repetition in vowel sounds in words that don't end with the same consonant?
Meter
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
What is the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to?
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Narrative poem
Lyrical poem
What is the technique of repeating the same word or phrase multiple times within a poem?
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Narrative poem
Lyrical poem
What is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using elements of a narrative such as narrator, plot, setting, and characters?
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Narrative poem
Lyrical poem
What is a non-narrative poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker's personal emotions and feelings?
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Narrative poem
Lyrical poem
What is a Japanese poem, composed of three lines and seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count?
Haiku
Ballad
Sonnet
Limerick
What is a plot-driven song with one or more characters and often constructed in quatrain stanzas?
Haiku
Ballad
Sonnet
Limerick
What is a fourteen-line poem written in one stanza, traditionally in iambic pentameter?
Haiku
Ballad
Sonnet
Limerick
What is a humorous or nonsensical poem composed of five lines with the rhyme scheme AABBA?
Haiku
Ballad
Sonnet
Limerick
What is a poem that does not rhyme or contain a structured meter?
Free verse
Acrostic
Concrete
Blank verse
What is a poem in which words are spelled out through the first letter of each line?
Free verse
Acrostic
Concrete
Blank verse
What is a poem that is as much a piece of visual art made with words as it is a work of poetry?
Free verse
Acrostic
Concrete
Blank verse
What is poetry that does not rhyme but follows a regular meter?
Free verse
Acrostic
Concrete
Blank verse
What is a poem that stems from African American culture and the musical tradition of the blues?
Blues poem
Elegy
Ode
Prose
What is a form of poetry in which the poet or speaker expresses grief, sadness, or loss?
Blues poem
Elegy
Ode
Prose
What is a lyric poem that praises or celebrates an event, a person, or a thing?
Blues poem
Elegy
Ode
Prose
What is a poem that lacks the line breaks traditionally associated with poetry?
Blues poem
Elegy
Ode
Prose
What is a highly structured poem made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain?
Villanelle
Purpose
Organization
Emotions
主题 What is the message, moral, or claim?
emotion
title
themes
organization
富有想象力的语言(修辞性语言) What figurative language and imagery is used? What impact does it have?
title
imaginative language
theme
emotion
