Elements of Poetry Quiz
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1. Poetry is a form of literary expression that captures intense experiences or creative perceptions of
the world in a ________________ language.
A. creative
B. musical
C. different
D. unusual
2. What is the ordinary language called that people use in speaking or writing?
A. personification
B. prose
C. rap
D. casual
3. What is the most common type of meter called in poetry?
A. centimeter
B. rhythm
C. iambic pentameter
4. In prose there is a narrator, but in poetry there is a __________?
A. speaker
B. specialist
C. composer
D. iambic quadrameter
D. protagonist
5. Who is the speaker in this poem? ______________________________
"Amazing!" was all I could say
Because I finally got my puppy today.
Chocolate brown with soulful eyes,
Definitely the perfect birthday surprise.
6. What is the name for a group of poetry lines forming a unit (like a paragraph in stories)?
A. stanza
B. line
C. paragraph
D. pattern
7. Name two types of sound devices in poetry. _____________________________________
8. What sound device can you see in this poem? _____________________
Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter,
'If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter.
9. What do we call the descriptive language that applies to the 5 senses?
A. hyperbole
B. imagery
C. climax
D. personification
10. True or False: Iambic Pentameter mimics the sound of the beating of a drum.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
11. __________ rhyme occurs within a line of poetry, and __________ rhyme occurs at the end of lines.
A. internal then external
B. external then internal
C. internal then end
D. line then end
12. Label the rhyme scheme in this except of a poem.
(Remember to use letters)
13. ____________ is the sound pattern created by
the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line, while ___________ is a regular pattern of
syllables which sets the overall rhythm of poems.
A. stanza & rhythm
B. rhythm & meter
C. meter & onomatopoeia
D. verse & rhythm
14. When we explore connotation and denotation of a poem, we look at the poet’s _______________.
A. point of view
B. theme
C. diction
D. plot
15. What type of poem is this?
A. narrative
B. free verse
C. sonnet
D. haiku
16. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? ________
17. Shakespeare’s sonnets 1-126 were called the ____________ _____________ series.
18. How many quatrains are in a traditional Elizabethan/ Shakespearean sonnet before a final couplet?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
19. What do you call a stanza of 4 lines each, which is usually in a sonnet?
A. couplet
B. quatrain
C. pentameter
D. paragraph
20. What do we call the two symbols
above this line of poetry?
A. unstressed and stressed syllables
B. free verse syllables
C. stressed and happy syllables
D. smile and brow syllables
*BONUS Question (2 pts): What are 2 of the 3 types of poetry AND which type includes free verse style?
__________________________________________ AND ______________________________.