Poetry Vocabulary
Exploring Poetry Vocabulary
Welcome to the Poetry Vocabulary Quiz! Test your knowledge of essential poetry terms that every poetry enthusiast should know. Whether you are a student, a teacher, or simply a lover of words, this quiz will challenge and expand your understanding of poetry.
- Define key terms in poetry.
- Explore concepts like imagery, tone, and figurative language.
- Assess your understanding through multiple-choice questions.
What is a line?
A single line in poetry
A line that never ends
A paragraph in poetry
A line you walk in down the hallway
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem. We can think of stanzas as paragraphs or chunks.
Multiple paragraphs in a poem
Separated chunks in a poem.
A lot of lines in a poem.
What is tone?
The way the author feels about topic or subject
The way the author wants readers to feel about a topic
The way we feel as a topic
The way everyone feels about a topic.
What is imagery?
A bunch of pictures from the author
A bunch of images you draw
The use of words to create pictures, or images, in your mind.
What is alliteration?
The repetition of the same vowel sound at the beginning of each word. For example,
The repetition of the first consonant sound in words, as in the nursery rhyme “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
When the author repeats the same words
What is mood?
A feeling you get sometimes
Feelings like sadness, anger, happiness
The feeling created by the poet for the reader to feel.
What is figurative language?
Language that is figurative
Words and phrase that aren’t meant to be taken literally. For example, it is raining cats and dogs.
A different type of language which only poets use
Personification
Personification is when things talk
Personification has the word person in it, so it means something a person does
Giving human traits to non-human things. For example, the leaves danced in the wind.
Giving human traits to human things
What is repetition in poetry?
When something repeats over and over
When words, phrases, or lines repeat in a poem.
What is a simile?
Comparing two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as". For example, she is sunshine.
Comparing two things using “like” or “as”. For example, the winter wind howled like a wolf.
What is a metaphor?
Comparing to things USING "like" or "as". For example, the winter wind howled like a wolf.
comparing two things without using “like” or “as”. For example, the night is a black cat.
What is onomatopoeia
Words that represent the sounds of something. For example, to represent the sound of a car, we could use “vroom!”
Words which aim to describe something.
Adjectives
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