Poetry—Pre-test                                                       Name__________________

(100 points)

 

_______ 1. poetry                            a. poetry with no rules

_______ 2. lyric poetry                     b. a song-like poem that tells a story

_______ 3. narrative poetry            c. an extreme exaggeration

_______4. haiku                               d. pattern of rhyming words at lines’ ends

_______ 5. limerick                          e. words that imitate a sound

_______ 6. ballad                             f. group of lines in a poem

_______ 7. free verse                      g. poem that tells a story

_______ 8. simile                             h. spaces in a poem where no words are

_______ 9. metaphor                       i. repeated patter of beats, or stresses

_______10. hyperbole                     j. repetition of consonant sounds

_______11.personification             k. comparison that uses “like” or “as”

_______12. repetition                      l. Japanese poem of 17 syllables

_______ 13. rhyme scheme            m. writing that expresses emotions of writer

_______ 14. alliteration                   n. repeated use of a sound, word, phrase

_______ 15. assonance                  o. words that have the same vowel sounds

_______ 16. consonance                p. poem to express a poet’s thoughts/feelings

_______ 17. onomatopoeia            q. direct comparison between two unlike things

_______ 18. rhythm                          r. humorous poem with specific rhyme scheme

_______ 19. stanza                          s. giving human characteristics to inanimates

_______20. white space                 t. repetition of consonant sounds at middle or end of words