As April is National Poetry Month, time to brush up on your poetry terminology! And I found this online quiz to help us out.
The author of a poem:
- Writer
- Author
- Poet
- Speaker
A group of lines placed together to create a poem:
- Stanza
- Paragraph
- Form
- Poem
A phrase or line repeated throughout the poem:
- Repetition
- Refrain
- Rhyme
- Rhythm
Boom, Crack, Pow. These are all examples of:
- Alliteration
- Imagery
- Onomatopoeia
- Repetition
The beat created by the sounds and words in the poem:
- Refrain
- Repetition
- Speaker
- Rhythm
When a word inside a line rhymes with another word inside the same line:
- External Rhyme
- Inside Rhyme
- End Rhyme
- Internal Rhyme
A word or sound repeated throughout a poem:
- Refrain
- Rhythm
- Rhyme
- Repetition
What is it called when a word or image is used to represent something else? Ex: An apple representing education
- Imagery
- Symbolism
- Onomatopoeia
- Alliteration
What is the pattern of rhyme a poem follows called?
- Rhyme
- Rhythm
- Rhyme Scheme
- Alliteration
What is it called when the word at the end of a line rhymes with a word at the end of another line?
- End Rhyme
- Line Rhyme
- Internal Rhyme
- External Rhyme
A group of words together to create a poem:
- Form
- Stanza
- Line
- Sentence
The way the lines look on the page is known as:
- Stanza
- Line
- Form
- Poem
So, how many did you get right? Do you know your terminology?
Happy quizzing,
Loes M.