Poetry Terms Quiz

Any literature which uses sounds, rhythm, and creative word choice to express thoughts and invoke feelings.

• Drama

• Poetry

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

A piece of creative writing that uses both speech and sound, and usually has rhyme and rhythm.

• Novel

• Essay

• Short Story

• Poem

A recurring similarity of sounds between words.

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Stanza

• Meter

This image is an example of...

• End Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme

Lines 2 & 4 of this poem are examples of...

• End Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme

The pattern of end rhyme between lines of a poem or song.

• Repetition

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

I went to the store

To buy some bread

I opened the door

And hit my head

This poem is written in...

• ABCB

  Rhyme Scheme

• ABAB Rhyme Scheme

• ABCD Rhyme Scheme

• AABB Rhyme Scheme

A recurring pattern of beats in a poem or song.

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Rhythm

• Meter

A set pattern of beats in lines of poetry to create rhythm.

• Meter

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Repetition

One single line of text in a poem.

• Stanza

• Line

• Paragraph

• Sentence