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English > Reading > Poetry - Quiz

Poetry

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1. What does a poem always do?
Your answer — uses imaginative language.
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A poem uses imaginative language to express feelings and ideas.

2. Why did people used to use poems to tell stories?
Your answer — rhymes and the rhythm made poems easy to remember.
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A poem that's used to tell a story is called a narrative poem.

3. What is Haiku?
Your answer — a form of Japanese poetry.
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Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry with only three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second 7 syllables and the third 5 syllables.

4. A type of poetry where the words are written to form a particular shape is called what?
Your answer — concrete poetry.
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Concrete poems are written in a shape that shows what the poem is about.

5. What is poetry that uses made-up words to describe things, or just to make nice sounds called?
Your answer — nonsense poetry.
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Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear and Spike Milligan are good authors to read if you like nonsense poetry.

6. What is a rhyme?
Your answer — when two words sound alike.
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Hat, bat, rat, mat and fat all rhyme.

7. What is alliteration?
Your answer — two words together that start with the same sound.
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For example, Perfect poems are particularly pleasing - all the 'p' words start with the same sound.

8. When you compare one thing to another you are using a what?
Your answer — metaphor.
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Metaphors are similar to similes but they are not the same thing.

9. What is a metaphor?
Your answer — to describe something as if it were something else.
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Metaphors can make poetry more interesting and are often used in other forms of writing.

10. What is giving human feelings and actions to objects known as?
Your answer — personification.
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Poets often give human feelings and actions to objects or ideas.

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