Starter quiz

  • Which of the following front covers are likely to be poetry collections?
  • What is a suitable definition of poetry?
    • informational books that cover a wide range of topics
    • writing that uses creative & rhythmic language to express thoughts and feelings  ✓
    • longer stories divided into chapters
    • traditional stories passed down through generations
  • True or False? A poem must be a certain length.
    • True
    • False ✓
  • In poetry, what do we call a group of lines that form a unit in a poem?
    • paragraph
    • chapter
    • stanza  ✓
    • verse  ✓
  • Match the poetry feature with its definition.
    • theme
      ⇔
      central idea or message conveyed by the poem ✓
    • emotion
      ⇔
      evokes feelings and moods through language and tone ✓
    • structure
      ⇔
      organised arrangement of lines, stanzas and verses ✓
    • symbolism
      ⇔
      use of symbols to represent deeper meanings ✓
    • rhyme
      ⇔
      correspondence of sounds, often at the end of lines ✓
  • Which of the following are features you might expect to find in a poem?
    • a specific form
    • symbolism  ✓
    • rhyme  ✓
    • alliteration  ✓
    • a specific length

Attributions

  • Q1: Rhythm and Poetry, Karl Nova, Caboodle Books Limited

  • Q1: Happy Poems: A Poetry Collection to Make You Smile!, Roger McGough, Macmillan Children's Books

  • Q1: Wonder, R J Palacio, Corgi Children's

  • Q1: Crater Lake, Jennifer Killick, Firefly Press

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