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Understanding Poetry Terms

Total questions: 58

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a piece of writing that conveys a message through language and often relates to culture, art, nature, or life?

a)

Poem

b)

Speaker

c)

Line

d)

Stanza

2.

What do we call the voice behind the poem; the character or narrator saying the poem?

a)

Poem

b)

Speaker

c)

Line

d)

Stanza

3.

What is a grouping of lines that form a unit in a poem?

a)

Poem

b)

Speaker

c)

Line

d)

Stanza

4.

What is a four-line stanza or grouping of four lines of verse?

a)

Couplet

b)

Quatrain

c)

Cinquain

d)

Tercet

5.

What do we call two successive lines of poetry, often rhymed?

a)

Couplet

b)

Quatrain

c)

Cinquain

d)

Tercet

6.

What is a poem or stanza composed of five lines?

a)

Couplet

b)

Quatrain

c)

Cinquain

d)

Tercet

7.

What is a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme?

a)

Couplet

b)

Quatrain

c)

Cinquain

d)

Tercet

8.

What is a specific line or lines that are repeated in a poem?

a)

Refrain

b)

Symbol

c)

Theme

d)

Mood

9.

What is an object or action that stands for something beyond itself?

a)

Refrain

b)

Symbol

c)

Theme

d)

Mood

10.

What is the message or idea that an author expresses in a poem about the subject?

a)

Refrain

b)

Symbol

c)

Theme

d)

Mood

11.

What is the feeling(s) and atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader?

a)

Refrain

b)

Symbol

c)

Theme

d)

Mood

12.

What is the attitude of the speaker or author as interpreted by the reader?

a)

Tone

b)

Imagery

c)

Juxtaposition

d)

Oxymoron

13.

What is descriptive language that invokes any of the five senses to create a set of mental images for the reader?

a)

Tone

b)

Imagery

c)

Juxtaposition

d)

Oxymoron

14.

What is when two things are placed close together to create a contrasting effect?

a)

Tone

b)

Imagery

c)

Juxtaposition

d)

Oxymoron

15.

What is a combination of two words that appear to contradict each other?

a)

Tone

b)

Imagery

c)

Juxtaposition

d)

Oxymoron

16.

What is a play on words usually when a single word with more than one meaning is used humorously?

a)

Pun

b)

Paradox

c)

Allusion

d)

Proverb

17.

What is a situation that appears to be contradictory and absurd but contains some measure of truth?

a)

Pun

b)

Paradox

c)

Allusion

d)

Proverb

18.

What is a subtle, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, artwork, or movement?

a)

Pun

b)

Paradox

c)

Allusion

d)

Proverb

19.

What is a short saying that states a very general truth or piece of advice?

a)

Pun

b)

Paradox

c)

Allusion

d)

Proverb

20.

What is a basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables?

a)

Poetic foot

b)

Iamb

c)

Iambic pentameter

d)

Enjambment

21.

What is a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable?

a)

Poetic foot

b)

Iamb

c)

Iambic pentameter

d)

Enjambment

22.

What is a traditional form of rising meter consisting of lines containing five iambic feet, or ten syllables?

a)

Poetic foot

b)

Iamb

c)

Iambic pentameter

d)

Enjambment

23.

What is the continuation of a phrase or sentence from one line to another without an end-stop?

a)

Poetic foot

b)

Iamb

c)

Iambic pentameter

d)

Enjambment

24.

What is a technique in which successive phrases or lines begin with the same words?

a)

Anaphora

b)

Metonymy

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

25.

What is a word or phrase that replaces the name of an object or concept for another to which it is related?

a)

Anaphora

b)

Metonymy

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

26.

What is the comparison of two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as'?

a)

Anaphora

b)

Metonymy

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

27.

What is the comparison of two unlike things that share something in common without using the words 'like' or 'as'?

a)

Anaphora

b)

Metonymy

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

28.

What is when an idea or object is given human attributes and/or feelings as if it were human?

a)

Personification

b)

Idiom

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Irony

29.

What is a common expression whose fixed order has a particular meaning that cannot be determined from its literal meaning?

a)

Personification

b)

Idiom

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Irony

30.

What is an overtly exaggerated statement or claim?

a)

Personification

b)

Idiom

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Irony

31.

What is when contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true?

a)

Personification

b)

Idiom

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Irony

32.

What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words?

a)

Rhyme

b)

Rhyme scheme

c)

Slant rhyme

d)

Rhythm

33.

What is the ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem?

a)

Rhyme

b)

Rhyme scheme

c)

Slant rhyme

d)

Rhythm

34.

What is a rhyme formed with words with similar but not identical sounds?

a)

Rhyme

b)

Rhyme scheme

c)

Slant rhyme

d)

Rhythm

35.

What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line?

a)

Rhyme

b)

Rhyme scheme

c)

Slant rhyme

d)

Rhythm

36.

What is a regular pattern of rhythm?

a)

Meter

b)

Alliteration

c)

Consonance

d)

Assonance

37.

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

a)

Meter

b)

Alliteration

c)

Consonance

d)

Assonance

38.

What is repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase?

a)

Meter

b)

Alliteration

c)

Consonance

d)

Assonance

39.

What is the repetition in vowel sounds in words that don't end with the same consonant?

a)

Meter

b)

Alliteration

c)

Consonance

d)

Assonance

40.

What is the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to?

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Repetition

c)

Narrative poem

d)

Lyrical poem

41.

What is the technique of repeating the same word or phrase multiple times within a poem?

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Repetition

c)

Narrative poem

d)

Lyrical poem

42.

What is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using elements of a narrative such as narrator, plot, setting, and characters?

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Repetition

c)

Narrative poem

d)

Lyrical poem

43.

What is a non-narrative poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker's personal emotions and feelings?

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Repetition

c)

Narrative poem

d)

Lyrical poem

44.

What is a Japanese poem, composed of three lines and seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count?

a)

Haiku

b)

Ballad

c)

Sonnet

d)

Limerick

45.

What is a plot-driven song with one or more characters and often constructed in quatrain stanzas?

a)

Haiku

b)

Ballad

c)

Sonnet

d)

Limerick

46.

What is a fourteen-line poem written in one stanza, traditionally in iambic pentameter?

a)

Haiku

b)

Ballad

c)

Sonnet

d)

Limerick

47.

What is a humorous or nonsensical poem composed of five lines with the rhyme scheme AABBA?

a)

Haiku

b)

Ballad

c)

Sonnet

d)

Limerick

48.

What is a poem that does not rhyme or contain a structured meter?

a)

Free verse

b)

Acrostic

c)

Concrete

d)

Blank verse

49.

What is a poem in which words are spelled out through the first letter of each line?

a)

Free verse

b)

Acrostic

c)

Concrete

d)

Blank verse

50.

What is a poem that is as much a piece of visual art made with words as it is a work of poetry?

a)

Free verse

b)

Acrostic

c)

Concrete

d)

Blank verse

51.

What is poetry that does not rhyme but follows a regular meter?

a)

Free verse

b)

Acrostic

c)

Concrete

d)

Blank verse

52.

What is a poem that stems from African American culture and the musical tradition of the blues?

a)

Blues poem

b)

Elegy

c)

Ode

d)

Prose

53.

What is a form of poetry in which the poet or speaker expresses grief, sadness, or loss?

a)

Blues poem

b)

Elegy

c)

Ode

d)

Prose

54.

What is a lyric poem that praises or celebrates an event, a person, or a thing?

a)

Blues poem

b)

Elegy

c)

Ode

d)

Prose

55.

What is a poem that lacks the line breaks traditionally associated with poetry?

a)

Blues poem

b)

Elegy

c)

Ode

d)

Prose

56.

What is a highly structured poem made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain?

a)

Villanelle

b)

Purpose

c)

Organization

d)

Emotions

57.

主题  What is the message, moral, or claim?

a)

emotion

b)

title

c)

themes

d)

organization

58.

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?

a)

title

b)

imaginative language

c)

theme

d)

emotion