Poetry Terms Quiz

Ballad

• A story/narrative in poetic form.

• The author’s specific word choice.

• A word that sounds like what it means. Ex: buzz, click, bang, sizzle

• A single line of poetry.

Diction

• The author’s specific word choice.

• Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.

• A single line of poetry.

• An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

Rhythm

• The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the _____ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.

• The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc.

• The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text. Ex: “Ivan will try to light the fire.”

• A story/narrative in poetic form.

What figurative language is used in this sentence?

"The teenage boy left behind a stench of Axe so powerful that it could set off the smoke detectors"

• hyperbole

• simile

• free verse

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

The way a poem is laid out on the page
is called

• stanza
• paragraph
• line break
• form

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is the "tone" of a story?

• The feeling the passage evokes from the reader
• The author, narrator, or speaker's general attitude in a piece of writing
• The time and place of the story
• The summary of events in the story

Tags

CCSS.L.6.3B

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

This is an example of: 
The crickets were chirping, the stars were shining and the air was filled with the smell of a campfire, s'mores and the pop corn was popping. 

• Onomontopia
• Paradox
• Personification
• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

This is an example of: 
He was a Romeo with the ladies. 

• Allusion
• Oxymoron
• Similie
• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

This is an example of:
The Gatorade quenched my thirst after I sprinted around the track with the sun beating down. 

• Imagery
• Allusion
• Personification
• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The following poem is an example of what poetic term?

My beard grows to my toes,
I never wears no clothes,
I wraps my hair
Around my bare,
And down the road I goes.

• sing song

• rhythmn

• mood

• rhyme