Poetry Terms

5 Written Questions

1. two lines that have the same structure, rhythm, or rhyme
2. a fourteen line poem
3. a poem that celebrates a dead person or people
4. a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones
5. giving human qualities to inanimate objects

5 Matching Questions

1. alliteration
2. foot
3. metaphor
4. blank verse
5. hyperbole

1. a a line of poetry that has a beat, but does not rhyme
2. b a figure of speech involving exaggeration
3. c metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables
4. d a comparison between two unlike things
5. e the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
   1. epic
   2. ode
   3. foot
   4. Iamb
2. measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a poem
   1. ode
   2. meter
   3. elegy
   4. imagery
3. two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one
   1. anapest
   2. imagery
   3. couplet
   4. sonnet
4. the use of images using the five senses
   1. simile
   2. elegy
   3. meter
   4. imagery
5. the matching of the final vowel sounds
   1. rhyme
   2. Iamb
   3. rhythm
   4. ode

5 True/False Questions

1. simile → a comparison between two things using like or as

   True        False

2. villanelle → the use of images using the five senses

   True        False

3. onomatopoeia → two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one

   True        False

4. stanza → a division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form;with similar patterns or rhymes

   True        False

5. symbol → an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

   True        False