5 Written Questions

1. A repetition of consonant sounds within words.
2. When a line of poetry continues to the next line without punctuation.
3. Originally a song performed in ancient Greece to the accompaniment of a lyre. A term now used for any fairly short poem in the voice of a single speaker.
4. A type of rhyme where first sounds are repeated in successive words.
5. The leaving out of an unstressed syllable or vowel, usually in order to keep a regular meter in a line of poetry.

5 Matching Questions

1. Analogy
2. Personification
3. Metonymy
4. Caesura
5. Quatrain

1. a Any resemblance (similarity) between otherwise unlike objects.
2. b When an object/person is referred to by another object that is closely associated with it.
3. c A figure of speech where animals, ideas, or inorganic objects are given human characteristics.
4. d A pause within a line of poetry.
5. e A four-line stanza or a complete poem.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. A lament for the dead or a meditation on the thoughts that death arouses.
   1. Analogy
   2. Elegy
   3. Epic
   4. Lyric
2. When a word or phrase is compared to something it does not literally resemble in order to emphasize particular qualities.
   1. Metaphor
   2. Metonymy
   3. Epic
   4. Stanza
3. Something that is itself and something else.
   1. Simile
   2. Symbol
   3. Stanza
   4. Lyric
4. A poem written in the voice of a character assumed by the poet.
   1. Dramatic
   2. Lyric
   3. Epic
   4. Quatrain
5. Exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.
   1. Simile
   2. Lyric
   3. Symbol
   4. Hyperbole

5 True/False Questions

1. Tercet → Three lines of poetry forming a stanza or a complete poem.

   True        False

2. Stanza → A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines often times with a reoccurring pattern or rhyme.

   True        False

3. Couplet → Three lines of poetry forming a stanza or a complete poem.

   True        False

4. Onomatopoeia → A poem written in the voice of a character assumed by the poet.

   True        False

5. Simile → Something that is itself and something else.

   True        False