Year 2 Poetry Quiz

What is a poem?

• A story with pictures

• A type of writing with rhythm and sometimes rhymes

• A list of words

• A letter to a friend

Which of these is a rhyme?

• Cat and dog

• Sun and moon

• Hat and mat

• Tree and flower

What do we call the groups of lines in a poem?

• Sentences

• Paragraphs

• Stanzas

• Chapters

What is a poet?

• Someone who writes poems

• Someone who paints pictures

• Someone who tells jokes

• Someone who plays music

Which of these words is an example of alliteration?

• Big blue ball

• The cat sat on the mat

• The bird flies high

• I like to eat apples

Poems always have to rhyme.

• True

• False

A simile compares two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

• True

• False

Poems can have rhythm, like a song.

• True

• False

A stanza is just one word in a poem.

• True

• False

Poets can use their senses to describe things in poems.

• True

• False