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Poetry Terms Quiz 102 (60 MCQs)

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1. A type of alliteration that involves a repetition of an 's' sound which creates a hissing quality is called
2. Insufficient or not enough
3. A formal poem, often written as a lament for a departed friend or respected person. The poet usually sets forth his or her ideas about death or some other serious subject.
4. What is it called when poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem?
5. Feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal or main meaning
6. What technique repeats sounds, words, phrases, or an entire line?
7. When certain words are repeated
8. Phrases or lines of poetry that are repeated in the poem
9. A word that is also the sound it creates.
10. ..... is the name for a group of lines in a poem.
11. Use of a word whose sound imitates or reinforces its meaning
12. A type of lyric poem that deals with serious themes like justice, truth, or beauty. Often odes use a singular object to convey their message.
13. The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to
14. What is is a combination of contradictory terms?Ex. jumbo shrimp
15. A rhymed pair of lines is called a .....
16. Attributing human like qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or other nouns
17. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing (using like or as) with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic.
18. What is the type of poetry that causes the reader to laugh?
19. A description of an object, place, animal, or an idea in human terms
20. Which term is poetry associated with?
21. When a poem repeats sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines, he or she is using
22. Longer and tells a story, with a beginning, middle, and end.Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry because the poet needs to establish characters and a plot
23. The "feel" of a word
24. A reference to a literary work, history, person, or place
25. The use of words that imitate sounds (crash, bang, hiss, splat)
26. A person, place, thing, or event that stands for something greater than itself.
27. The lack of any regular rhythm or meter in a poem
28. Is like the chapters in a book, they contain multiple scenes
29. The use of words that vividly describe a sound (the word mimics the sound) so that readers can clearly "hear" them is called .....
30. Guilt poked and chewed at me for telling the lie.
31. 'Places of calm' contains repeated broad vowel sounds, an effect that is called:
32. Easily recognized or obvious
33. The pattern of rhymes
34. What is the definition of the term:Connotation?
35. Similes compare two things using the words
36. Using the words "like" or "as" or another connective word to compare one thing to another in a creative and indirect way is called a:
37. What is the definition of a denotation?
38. When two or more words create a rhyme in the same line of a poem or verse
39. Directions:Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. Paul Laurence Dunbar- "We Wear the Mask" We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, ..... This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with countless subtleties.Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, whileWe wear the mask.We smile, but, O great Christ, our criesTo thee from tortured souls arise.We sing, but oh the ground is vileBeneath our feet, and long the mile;But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! #4 Why does the author include line 4 in the poem?
40. A pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem; stanzas can have the same or different of these
41. The first letters in a line/verse spell a word if you read vertically
42. A stressed syllable followed two unstressed syllables, like "beautiful"
43. Exchange of spoken words between two or more characters in a book, play, or other written work
44. The repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds on accented syllables
45. Words that sound a like
46. What is the repetition of vowel sounds?
47. The repeating of a consonant sound at the beginning, such as Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper, is called
48. A figure of speech in which an object, idea, or animal is given human qualities and attributes
49. What is the correct term for the following definition? A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
50. The most common type of meter in English poetry that has five iambic feet in each line.
51. A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their literal meaning
52. The message that the author wants the reader to learn
53. The repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the sound to be heard
54. "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man" is an example of which poetic device?
55. What is the tone?Grandma picked up the framed photo on the table. Lovingly, she traced the face of the young man in the picture that was taken long ago. A tear slid down her cheek.
56. How would you describe imagery?
57. What is the correct term for the following definition? The imaginary voice a poet uses when writing a poem. The character who tells the poem.
58. A 14 line poem, usually highly structured. The three main types are Shakesperean, Petrachan or Spenserian
59. Giving human traits to a nonhuman thing is?
60. What are the intended readers of a poem or writing called?
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