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Poetry Terms Quiz 113 (60 MCQs)

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1. Ball/crawl is an example of:
2. The rhyme scheme of a limerick is .....
3. A cheap bench seat at a sports arena, typically in an outdoor uncovered stand.
4. .....sonnet is rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg
5. This can be the poet OR an invented character who has had an experience that is written about.
6. What is being compared in the following line? "Our hearts, though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums, are beating funeral marches to the grave." from "A Psalm of Life" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
7. Which type of poem is free from any specific rhythm, stanzas, or line measurements?
8. The breeze whispered through the trees
9. Using words that sound like their meanings
10. Josh acts like a clown to try to impress the ladies This is an example of .....
11. The comparison of two things that are not really alike by using the words like or as is called .....
12. Rhyme involving sounds that are similar but not exactly the same
13. It was raining cats and dogs this morning.
14. My dog died on my birthday causing me to feel .....
15. Five feet in a line of poetry
16. Something that stands for something else
17. A group of lines in a poem, often separated by a space and sharing a specific pattern or rhyme scheme.
18. ..... are words with the same ending sounds at the end of lines or stanzas
19. Words that rhyme inside a line.
20. The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a line or stanza to add emphasis. An example:At that mat sat Pat who liked to bat.
21. "O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won." is an example of:
22. Descriptive language that invokes any of the five senses to create a set of mental images for the reader
23. An oxymoron is .....
24. A group of words in a line in a poem
25. Giving non-human things human characteristics or abilities
26. An intentional contradiction between apparent and actual meaning
27. True or False:All rhyming words have to have the same end spelling.
28. A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. 'It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.'.
29. The trees danced under the starry skies is an example of ..... ?
30. What is a group of words aligned in one row?
31. A short, unrhymed Japanese poetic form with three lines of five syllable, seven syllables, and five syllables
32. The felt emotion by the reader of the poem is called:
33. Giving reference to a movie, book, or common phrase that most people know
34. End rhymes that are not exact, but approximate.
35. What poetic sound device is used in this sentence? She fell flat on her face.
36. Overtones, suggestions, implications, and additional meanings of the word
37. What figurative language is an expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression?
38. Definition:a four-line verse or poem that rhymes
39. Figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis for humorous effect.
40. Repetition of consonants in a line-not at the beginning
41. A fourteen-line lyric poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet
42. The beat of a poem, created by the poet's deliberate choice of words made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
43. 'I tire of writing poems and rhyme I think I need vacation time'Is an example of .....
44. How many actual days of vacation do we get at Thanksgiving?
45. Direct address to an absent or otherwise unresponsive entity (someone or something dead, imaginary, abstract, or inanimate).
46. The difference between mood and tone is .....
47. Tom talked to Teddy today.
48. A writer's choice of words; choosing words with precise denotations and connotations
49. Which type of writing is written in paragraphs?
50. The syllables for a haiku follow the pattern
51. What type of figurative language is the following? "When I pray the sun won't devour your northbound steps."
52. It is the use of rhyming words at the end of two or more lines of poetry.
53. McDonald's is an inexpensive meal. If you change the word inexpensive to cheap, the word now has a ..... connotation.
54. A literary form that combines the precise meanings of words with their emotional associations. When you read poetry, consider the poem's voice, structure, and sound.
55. What is a comparison of two things. Does NOT use like or as. Ex:She was a robot at work.
56. A narrative poem composed of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming a-b-a-b. Ballads may use refrains. Examples: "Jackaroe, " "The Long Black Veil"
57. When the opposite of what you expect happens. For example:A mechanic whose car is falling apart
58. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
59. The organization of the parts of the poem are referred to as
60. A POET is a person who writes poetry.
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