Poetry Terms Quiz

a group of words in a row

• Stanza

• Line

• Mood

• Tone

the way the reader feels while reading a poem

• Stanza

• Tone

• Mood

• Line

a line or group of lines in a poem separated from other lines by extra white space

• Tone

• Mood

• Line

• Stanza

a poem written in an established pattern

• Free Verse

• Metered

• Stanza

• Line

a poem that does not have a set rhythm, set line length, or set rhyme scheme

• Metered

• Tone

• Mood

• Free Verse

language that cannot be taken literally

• Sound Devices

• Figurative Language

• Shift

• Mood

the narrator of a poem

• Speaker

• Stanza

• Sound Device

• Figurative Language

using sound to affect the meaning or reading of the text

• Figurative Language

• Tone

• Sound Devices

• Mood

the way a poet/speaker feels about the topic of the poem

• Mood

• Tone

• Metered

• Free Verse

a point in the poem when it's meaning or tone turns in a new, significant way

• Tone

• Mood

• Shift

• Line