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Poetry Terms Quiz 105 (60 MCQs)

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1. A lyric poem that praises or celebrates an event, a person, or a thing
2. What is the pattern of end rhyme in a poem called?
3. Group of words arranged in a row in poetry
4. Imagery can be defined as .....
5. What is a group of lines arranged together?
6. A rhyme between words in the same line
7. Which one is not alliteration?
8. What is the rhyme scheme of the tercets in a villanelle?
9. Imagery also focuses on the senses.
10. Which word means a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
11. Klarissa Klein drives an old, grumbling Cadillac which has a crumpled bumper and screaming, honking horn.
12. Follows fixed rules, has a regular rhyme and rhythm
13. Tapping Disrupts the Serenity of Nature Dr. Clarence P. Wilson thought that a peaceful weekend getaway in the woods would be the perfect escape from the stresses of big city life. As fate would have it, Dr. Wilson never got the rest that he desired. "There was a woodpecker that kept tap-tap-tapping on the tree outside of my cabin window all weekend long, " Dr. Wilson grumbled. What type of figurative language is used?
14. When two or more words in a sentence start with the same letter
15. Poem with a rhythm like everyday speech and does not have regular patterns of rhyme
16. An object that stands for a deeper concept
17. A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
18. All Poetry must rhyme
19. What is the rhythm of a poem?
20. What is parallelism?
21. Lyrical poems.....
22. Sentences and paragraphs
23. A poem that does not rhyme
24. Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds are known as .....
25. A group of lines in a poem, rather than paragraphs
26. A set of four lines within a poem
27. A three-line Japanese verse form. The first and third lines have five syllables. The second line has seven syllables.
28. ..... poems rhyme and express personal thoughts and feelings, like a song.
29. Repeated consonant sound, especially at the beginning of the word:i.e. Coca Cola
30. Definition:a figure of speech that compares two things using "like or "as"
31. "It's raining cats and dogs" or "He's on fire"
32. Where did Haikus come from?
33. When something represents or stands for something else.
34. "The sun played peek-a-boo with the clouds" is an example of-
35. A word that sounds like its meaning
36. ..... are the ends of each row of text in a poem
37. A term that includes the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature as well as all the sensory perceptions referred to in a poem
38. The feeling the poet creates for the reader
39. The attitude or feeling that a poem gives the reader is .....
40. Dactyl or dactyllic
41. What does repetition mean?
42. A cultural or historical reference or quotation that authors assume their readers will recognize.
43. This has a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
44. Denotation literal meaning
45. A pair of rhyming lines in a poem. Shakespeare ends all his sonnets with one.
46. The attitude of the speaker in a poem (how the speaker feels).
47. The comparison of two unlike things that doe not use like or as.
48. ..... involves giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.
49. Division of poetry names for the number of lines it contains
50. Which does not belong?
51. When a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
52. Stressed syllables are
53. Like a paragraph but in poem
54. The ball jumped out of the receiver's hands.
55. A phrase, idea, or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature
56. When words in the same line of a poem have both consonance and assonance (similar sounds).
57. What is tone in writing?
58. Words that make a sound (pop, crack, whoosh, hiss)
59. "When Carly eats spaghetti, sauce slurping and smacking around her mouth. She scrapes the toast against her plate, crunching, grinding every mouthful." is an example of which sound device?
60. A grouping of lines in a poem (like a paragraph). Often each stanza is the same length and follows the same pattern of meter or rhyme.
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