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Practice - Poetry - 07

Welcome to this fun and interactive quiz all about poetry! This is designed to challenge your understanding of poetry and its elements. Don't fret — it's not as hard as it sounds. Remember, poetry is a way to express our feelings in a beautiful and artistic manner. Ready to test your poetry prowess? Let's get started!
1 .
What is alliteration in poetry?
A comparison without using 'like' or 'as'
A type of rhythm in poetry
A word that sounds like what it means
The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words
Alliteration is when you use words that have the same sound at the start, like 'Stellar students studying statistics.'
2 .
What is imagery in poetry?
When the poet writes in a different language
When the poet creates pictures in the reader's mind
When the poem has a rhythm or beat
When the poem is about pictures or images
Imagery is the name given to the elements in a poem that spark off the senses. It's all about creating rich pictures in the reader's mind.
3 .
Which of these is a simile?
She was as graceful as a swan
She danced
She span around the ballroom
She was a goddess on the dancefloor
A simile in poetry compares two different things by using 'like' or 'as'. For example, 'as brave as a lion', 'crazy like a fox'.
4 .
Which of these is personification?
The clouds were as dark as the night
The dark clouds frowned down on me
The clouds were a mountain in the sky
The clouds were black
Personification is when animals, objects, or ideas are given human qualities or actions. For example, 'The stars danced in the night sky'.
5 .
Which is more likely to be a funny poem?
A Sonnet
A Limerick
A Haiku
A Ballad
A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. The first, second, and fifth lines must have seven to ten syllables while rhyming and having the same verbal rhythm.
6 .
What is rhythm in poetry?
Words that rhyme in a poem
The beat or pace of the poem
A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
When the poem tells a story
Rhythm in poetry is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of a poem. It's the beat or flow of the poem.
7 .
Which of these is a metaphor?
The river curved like a ribbon
The wayward river
The river was a snake curling over the landscape
The river bent
A metaphor in poetry is a comparison that is made directly, without using 'like' or 'as'. For example, 'The snow is a white blanket'.
8 .
What are stanzas in a poem?
Words that rhyme
Any single line in a poem
A group of lines in a poem considered as a unit
The rhythm or beat of the poem
Stanzas are the paragraphs of a poem. Each poem can have multiple stanzas and each stanzas can have multiple lines.
9 .
What is an acrostic poem?
A poem without rhyme
A poem where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase
A poem that tells a story
A poem that is sung
An acrostic poem is a type of poetry where the first, last or certain letters in a line spell out a particular word or phrase. The most common and simple form of an acrostic poem is where the first letters of each line spell out the word or phrase.
10 .
What is rhyme in poetry?
A type of punctuation
When words at the ends of lines have the same sound
A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
A word that sounds like what it means
Rhyme in poetry refers to the matching similarity of sounds at the end of lines of a poem. For example, 'fat' and 'cat'.
Author:  Graeme Haw

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