National Poetry Month Quiz
You may want to refer to the Poetry Glossary for help.
1.
I use concrete things to represent abstract or spiritual themes.
What am I?
2.
I repeat initial consonant sounds.
What am I?
3.
I refer to famous historical or literary writings.
What am I?
4.
I repeat words or phrases at the beginning of sentences.
What am I?
5.
I repeat vowel sounds, and I try to make rhymes.
What am I?
6.
I don't use rhyme and I have ten syllables in each line.
What am I?
7.
I am a set of two lines whose last two words rhyme.
What am I?
8.
I am a very long poem that tells the tale of a heroic figure.
What am I?
9.
For emphasis, I repeat the same words in a row.
What am I?
10.
I am a long poem that tells a story.
What am I?
11.
I don't use regular rhyme or meter.
What am I?
12.
I originated in Japan and am very structured, with three lines that have five, seven, and five syllables, respectively.
What am I?
13.
I am a short poem that describes simple times in romantic ways.
What am I?
14.
I directly compare one thing with another dissimilar thing.
What am I?
15.
I am the rhythmic pattern, or how words are stressed, of a line of poetry.
What am I?
16.
I am a very formal and elaborate lyrical poem.
What am I?
17.
I am a word whose sound implies its meaning.
What am I?
18.
I am a figure of speech where two unlike things are compared, using the words like or as.
What am I?
19.
I am a 14-line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a structured rhyme scheme.
What am I?
20.
I am a stanza, a short section of a longer poem, or a term for poetry itself.
What am I?
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