Poetry Vocabulary
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- Q1What is a poem?A literary work that expresses ideas, thoughts and feelings.A literary work that has a set rhyming pattern and meter.A literary work that has literary devices.A literary work that creates a tone and rhythm.30s
- Q2What is rhythm in poetry?The pattern of stressed or unstressed words in a poem.The words that rhyme at the end of each sentence in a poem,The rhyming beats in a poem,The rhyming scheme in a poem.30s
- Q3What does meter refer to in poetry?Stressed or unstressed syllables in a poem.AA BB C rhyming pattern in a poem.The rhyming scheme in a poem.How long a poem actually is.30s
- Q4What is rhyme in a poem?Two or more words in a line that begin with the same sound.AA or BB rhyming pattern in a poem.The number of beats in a poem.The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem.30s
- Q5The structure of a sonnet gives it ______ lines.131411530s
- Q6What is the rhyming pattern of a limerick?AA-BB-CAA-BB-AAB- CD-DAB-AB-CC30s
- Q7How many lines do a limerick have?654330s
- Q8The Haiku is from which culture?ChinaJapanKoreaIndia30s
- Q9The Haiku has ______ lines and _____ syllables.17,55, 33,143, 1730s
- Q10The Haiku is does not has to rhyme.FalseTrue30s
- Q11A sonnet has ________ lines.514131130s
- Q12"Repetition" refers to _________...the words that end the first and second line of a poem....the same sounds that begins two or more words in a line in a poem.the repetition of lines or words in a poem....the repetition of rhymes in a poem.30s
- Q13A free verse poem has no set rhyming pattern, meter or rhythm.TrueFalse30s
- Q14What is a ballad?A sad and long poem.A poem filled with literary devices.A poem that tells a story.A very happy poem with 14 lines.30s
- Q15What is a lyric?A short 5 line poem with an AA-BB-A rhyming pattern.A poem that tells a story.A formal type of poem which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.A sort 17 syllable Japanese poem.30s