
Poetry and Literary Devices Quiz
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English
12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Define free verse poem
Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech.
Poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.
A poem, Italian in origin, composed of tercets woven into a complex rhyme scheme.
a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.
A poem made of stanzas of four lines, especially having alternate rhymes.
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.11-12.11
CCSS.RL.8.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Define blank verse poem
Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech.
Poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.
A poem, Italian in origin, composed of tercets woven into a complex rhyme scheme.
a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.
A poem made of stanzas of four lines, especially having alternate rhymes.
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.11-12.13
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Define terza rima
Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech.
Poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.
A poem, Italian in origin, composed of tercets woven into a complex rhyme scheme.
a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.
A poem made of stanzas of four lines, especially having alternate rhymes.
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Define heroic couplets
Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech.
Poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.
A poem, Italian in origin, composed of tercets woven into a complex rhyme scheme.
a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.
A poem made of stanzas of four lines, especially having alternate rhymes.
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Define quatrains
Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech.
Poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.
A poem, Italian in origin, composed of tercets woven into a complex rhyme scheme.
a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.
A poem made of stanzas of four lines, especially having alternate rhymes.
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.11-12.13
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
This is an example of
free verse
blank verse
terza rima
a heroic couplet
a quatrain
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.11-12.11
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
This is an example of
free verse
blank verse
terza rima
heroic couplets
a quatrain
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
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