Poetry Review

What does a door symbolize?

• Commitment

• Being shut out

• Opportunity

A grouped set of lines within a poem (poem's version of a paragraph), usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation:

• Word position

• Rhyme

• Stanza

What does a raven symbolize?

• Death, destruction, doom

• Temptation

• Happiness, light

The distinctive way that the poet uses language, including word choice, line length, figurative language, and imagery

• Style

• Word position

• Lines

When you see the same words or phrases over and over again in a poem it is:

• Hyperbole

• Tone

• Repetition

The shape or structure of a poem; the way the poem looks on a page

• Form

• Style

• Stress

Nature

It's a beautiful thing

We go outside and it's right there

But we do not seem to notice it

With trees growing all around us

Birds soaring in the air

What type of poem is this?

• Free verse

• Ballad

• Sonnet

What does rain symbolize?

• Power, strength

• Sadness, despair, cleansing

• Hope

Which is a couplet rhyme scheme?

• AB

• AA

• ABBA

Which is an alternate rhyme scheme?

• ABAB

• AAB

• AAA