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Poetry Terms Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. The author's lesson, message, or moral about life.
2. Comparing two unlike things
3. What is an Onomatopoeia?
4. A form of poetry that tells a story, such as "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"
5. Which term refers to a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem?
6. The patterns of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed syllables; the musical quality
7. What is an exaggeration?
8. The order/pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
9. Use of a word whose sounds imitates or suggests its meaning.
10. What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? ("Dreams" by Langston Hughes)Hold fast to dreams/For if dreams die/Life is a broken-winged bird/That cannot fly./
11. How do you tell a poem's rhyme scheme?
12. A pair of rhyming lines in a poem, considered a unit
13. A humorous five-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme
14. A regular pattern of rhythm
15. What is Refrain?
16. What is the importance of form in a poem?
17. Compares two unlike things using like or as
18. What does the term 'onomatopoeia' refer to in poetry?
19. Why do writers love to use assonance?
20. What is the purpose of onomatopoeia in poetry?
21. What type of poem is this an example of?
22. The gym is a freezer.
23. A very short and humorous or nonsensical poem with five lines.
24. A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:
25. "Her ruby slippers glowed like embers in a fire" is an example of what figurative language?
26. An unrhymed form of poetry consisting of 5 prescribed lines.
27. What term is described as an object (living or nonliving) that represents or stands for something else?
28. All of the following are types of figurative language that might appear in a poem EXCEPT-
29. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?The one who brought me down to earth, And held me every day. The one who gracefully gave me birth, And said, I love you in every way.
30. A question that does not require an answer; the effect is achieved just by asking the question
31. Words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings are .....
32. This is a repetition of consonant clusters, like "The snake slithered in the swamp."
33. Systematically arranged and measured rhythm in verse
34. Read the following text: "As the young mother faced off against the man who tried to stealher purse, she was a bear. He took one look in her eyes and quickly gave up."Which element of poetry did the poet use?
35. The best definition of a quatrain is .....
36. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
37. The attitude the poem's narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character:serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc.
38. A term used in poetry to refer to lines that end without a punctuation and without completing a sentence or clause.
39. The attitude of an author about a subject or an audience is called
40. "[Love] is the star to every wandering bark [ship]" is an example of a .....
41. A poem that tells a story
42. A funny poem made up of five lines that rhyme in a set pattern
43. To which of the five senses does the following sentence or phrase appeal? The flashing lights of the police car alerted us that something was wrong.
44. A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true
45. Words or phrases that mean more than their dictionary definitions. For example:similes and metaphors.
46. A larger-than-life figure who embodies the ideals of a nation or race.
47. Metrical foot consisting of an accented (stressed) syllable followed by an unaccented (unstressed) syllable
48. The message or lesson that the poet is trying to communicate with the reader
49. What is a lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.
50. An overstatement or extravagant exaggeration, so far exaggerated that it cannot be taken literally
51. Having the same pattern of accented and unaccented syllables
52. Description that draws on the five senses to create a picture for the reader
53. A poem without a normal pattern
54. Ascending means to
55. An object or idea that represents something else
56. You were as brave as a lion. They fought like cats and dogs. He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys are examples of .....
57. A poem of lamentation about a death. Often, it takes the form of a pastoral (idealization of rural life).
58. Rhythm and rhyme both focus on.....
59. An exaggeration that is used for an effect is called a(n) .....
60. It is an exaggerated statement.
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