Poetry
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  • Question 1
    60 seconds
    Q. What structure is poetry written in?
    answer choices
    Sentences & paragraphs
    Sentences & stanzas
    Lines & paragraphs
    Lines & stanzas
  • Question 2
    120 seconds
    Q.

    Poetry uses ____ devices like rhythm and rhyme.

    answer choices

    Sound

    Sight

    Taste

    Touch

  • Question 3
    30 seconds
    Q. What is the narrator of a poem called?
    answer choices
    Author
    Speaker
    Narrator
    Main character
  • Question 4
    30 seconds
    Q. True or False: All poems must rhyme.
    answer choices
    True
    False
  • Question 5
    60 seconds
    Q. Define "rhyme."
    answer choices
    Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
    The repetition of a letter.
    The repetition of an ending sound.
  • Question 6
    30 seconds
    Q. Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.
    answer choices
    Musical
    Old-fashioned
    Important
    Difficult
  • Question 7
    60 seconds
    Q. What is "alliteration" ?
    answer choices
    The use of synonyms.
    Words that sound alike.
    An exaggeration.
    The repetition of a beginning letter sound.
  • Question 8
    60 seconds
    Q. In poetry, what is "meter" ?
    answer choices
    Words that sound the same
    Sophisticated vocabulary
    The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables
    The length of a poem
  • Question 9
    30 seconds
    Q. What is a "refrain" ?
    answer choices
    The last line of a poem
    The first line of a poem
    A line that is repeated
    A line that rhymes
  • Question 10
    30 seconds
    Q. What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?
    answer choices
    Simile
    Metaphor
    Alliteration
    Hyberbole
  • Question 11
    60 seconds
    Q. What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?
    answer choices
    Hyperbole
    Alliteration
    Metaphor
    Simile
  • Question 12
    30 seconds
    Q. What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?
    answer choices
    Hyperbole
    Personification
    Alliteration
    Idiom
  • Question 13
    30 seconds
    Q. Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? 
    answer choices
    Metaphor
    Alliteration
    Personification
    Hyperbole
  • Question 14
    60 seconds
    Q. What device is used here:
    Good as gold
    Busy bee
    Living the life
    answer choices
    Personification
    Hyperbole
    Alliteration
    Rhyme
  • Question 15
    60 seconds
    Q. What device is used here:
    "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."
    answer choices
    Refrain
    Rhyme
    Meter
    Simile
  • Question 16
    30 seconds
    Q. Who is this famous poet?
    answer choices
    Robert Frost
    William Shakespeare
    Langston Hughes
    William Butler Yeats
  • Question 17
    30 seconds
    Q. Who is this famous poet?
    answer choices
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    Maya Angelou
    Sylvia Plath
    Emily Dickinson
  • Question 18
    30 seconds
    Q. What is "onomatopoeia" ?
    answer choices
    An exaggeration
    Sound words
    Rhyming words
    A form of imagery
  • Question 19
    60 seconds
    Q. To pace yourself when reading poetry, it is important to take note of punctuation to help choose your intonation. What might "intonation" means?
    answer choices
    Your attitude
    The atmosphere
    The tone/pitch of your voice
    Your feeling
  • Question 20
    30 seconds
    Q. Bonus Q: Finish this famous line of poetry:
    I think that I shall never see
    A poem as lovely as a ____.
    answer choices
    Tree
    Sea
    Bee
    Sweet pea
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