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Poetry Terms Quiz 107 (60 MCQs)

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1. Repetition of initial consonant sounds (mama makes marshmallow pie)
2. The way the poet chooses to arrange lines in the poem.
3. Central idea is defined as .....
4. One written line of poetry
5. Identify the figurative language used:Her hair danced in the wind while she skipped through the golden meadow.
6. Using words that have the same (or very similar) ending sound is called
7. What is the Rhyme Scheme of the following: "The people along the sandAll turn and look one way.They turn their back on the land.They look at the sea all day."
8. The repetition of the ending of sounds in words that are near each other in a poem
9. Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive format, style, and rhythm.
10. This another word for huge exagerration
11. A refrain in poetry is
12. The repetition of the same or similar initial consonant sounds is
13. The word "comedy' is an example of a what type of meter?
14. A group of lines that may contain a complete idea is a .....
15. The person we imagine saying the poem is .....
16. Group of lines that work together to express a central idea.
17. Words that imitate sounds are known as what?:
18. The attitude or mood that the author creates Ex:sad, happy, sarcastic, cheerful
19. Which word should be rhyming in each line?
20. The feeling the story creates for the reader.
21. Poem's entire word choice:elevated, colloquial, unusual, conversational, specialized, vernacular
22. Words whose sounds suggest their meaning
23. Imaginary voice that narrates the poem
24. The Petrarchan Sonnet is also known as
25. A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
26. The speaker is not part of the story, but tells about the other characters through the limited perceptions of one other person.
27. Two or more words that have the same ending sound
28. Paraphrasing means to .....
29. Two forms of poetic "feet" :an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one (preVENT)/an accented syllable followed by an accented one (FOOTball)
30. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.Which device below is shown in the above line of poetry?
31. Using key words or phrases more than once to draw attention
32. A reference to another piece of work (writing, movie, pop culture) within a text. "We aren't in Kansas anymore" would be an ..... to the Wizard of Oz.
33. Big bumbling bumblebees rode light, lilting breezes
34. The pattern of end rhyme in a poem Ex. (aabba)
35. He is the only honest thief.
36. A poem that has no regular patterns in line length, rhyme, or rhythym
37. This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line. Ex. If this were a poem, this would bean example of the technique.
38. Poems are often written in paragraphs called .....
39. A pun uses like or as?
40. An animal is given human-like qualities or an object is given life-like qualities
41. A unit of poetic lines
42. The repetition of a single consonant sound in words that are close together.
43. A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to something nonhuman.
44. ..... is the central message or meaning of the poem.
45. Giving an animal or object human characteristics
46. Two lines back to back that rhyme. Known because it is used by many famous poets and authors.
47. Change in focus, point of view, time, or tone in a poem
48. Last words of lines have perfect rhyme
49. Which of the following is the definition of imagery?
50. The trees whispered their songs of spring
51. Visually descriptive language.....
52. A line of poetry containing one metrical foot
53. Rhyming that happens at the end of a line and uses a ABAB pattern is called-
54. Alliteration is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of nearby words.
55. A couplet in which the second line relies on subsequent material for complete meaning is a(n) ..... couplet.
56. A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usully with a specific rhyme scheme. Typically the lines are divided into four stanzas. (the first 3 stanzas have 4 lines each and the last has 2 lines)
57. Using vivid words and descriptions to make a picture in a reader's mind
58. Comparison of things that have something in common using "like" or "as"
59. The use of like sounding words or word endings within lines of poetry
60. The purpose of poetry includes
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