Test: Some Poetry Terms - 20 Questions

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5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. Haiku
  2. Free Verse
  3. Alliteration
  4. Meter
  5. Rhyme Scheme
  1. a Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme
  2. b Evokes a picture and it is 3 lines only with 5/7/5 syllables
  3. c The pattern of end rhymes in a poem
  4. d A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
  5. e The repetition of consonant sounds in several words that are close together

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. A long narrative poem that tells a story about a hero
  2. A song or poem that tells a story about tragedy, love, or alternative
  3. The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables
  4. A long lyric poem in praise of someone or something
  5. Words having similarity in sounds

5 True/False Question

  1. Assonance → Repetition of vowel sounds

          

  2. Refrain → Repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines

          

  3. Sonnet → A 14-line poem usually in iambic pentameter

          

  4. Elegy → A long lyric poem in praise of someone or something

          

  5. Couplet → A 14-line poem usually in iambic pentameter

          

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