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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