Poetry Terms Quiz
1.
_______ repetition of initial consonant sounds
2.
_______poetry in which characters are revealed through dialogue and monologue, as well as through description
3.
_______the pattern the end rhymes form in a stanza or poem
4.
_______the continuation of a sentence across a line break without a punctuated pause between lines
5.
_______a line of poetry with six feet a. hexameter b. alliteration e. rhyme scheme c. enjambment d. lyric poetry
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6.
_______figure of speech in which a speaker addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or an absent person
7.
_______verse that tells a story
8.
_______the repetition of similar consonant sounds typically within or at the end of words
9.
_______a short, witty poem; a saying
10.
_______a line of poetry with five feet a. pentameter d. consonance b. narrative poem e. epigram c. apostrophe
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11.
_______the repetition of similar vowel sounds, especially in a line of poetry
12.
_______a lyric poem of fourteen lines, typically written in iambic pentameter and usually following strict patterns of stanza divisions and rhymes
13.
_______the analysis of the meter of a line of verse
14.
_______a metaphor that compares two unlike things in various ways throughout a paragraph, stanza, or an entire piece of writing
15.
_______a line of poetry with four feet a. tetrameter b. assonance e. scansion c. extended metaphor d. sonnet
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16.
_______a narrative song or poem
17.
_______the recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech or piece of writing
18.
_______any object, person, place, or experience that exists on a literal level, but also represents something else, usually something abstract
19.
_______a contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality
20.
_______unstressed, unstressed, stressed

a. repetition d. anapest b. ballad e. irony c. symbol
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21.
_______poetry written in unrhymed, iambic pentameter
22.
_______the voice of a poem, similar to a narrator in a work of prose
23.
_______the central message of a work of literature that readers can apply to life
24.
_______a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm
25.
_______stressed, unstressed, unstressed a. blank verse b. speaker e. meter c. dactyl d. theme
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26.
_______a long narrative poem that traces the adventures of a hero
27.
_______two consecutive, paired lines of poetry, usually rhymed, usually forming a stanza
28.
_______an elaborate extended metaphor that dominates a passage or an entire poem
29.
_______the author’s attitude toward the subject of a poem
30.
_______unstressed, stressed a. conceit d. epic b. iamb e. couplet c. tone
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31.
_______a traditional Japanese form of poetry that has three lines and seventeen syllables, the first and third lines have five syllables each, and the middle has seven syllables
32.
_______the repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words
33.
_______a writer’s choice of words
34.
_______a line of poetry with two feet a. dimeter d. rhyme b. haiku c. diction