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Poetry Terms Quiz 115 (60 MCQs)

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1. A figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing is given humanattributes
2. Poetry that expresses thoughts and feelings and usually has only one speaker.
3. In this short poem called "The Storm, " what kind of figurative language is present?"The Storm"Looks like a mud puddle in the skyAnd smells like moldy leatherIt sounds like a giant's stomach rumblingAnd feels like being turned inside out.
4. Choose the correct example of an alliteration
5. Author's attitude toward the subject
6. She stuck the stolen stapler in her suitcase.
7. The mixing and combining of sensory details. Example: "The Loudness of Color
8. Giving human characteristics to something that is not alive
9. A traditional pattern that applies to a whole poem. Includes limerick, sonnet, and villanelle
10. A spoken or written account of connected events
11. Pattern of syllables in a line of poetry
12. It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets. This is an example of
13. Try to light the fire.
14. A poem with a shape that suggests its subject
15. What is the definition of the term:Personification?
16. Two or more lines of poetry that have the same ending sounds
17. Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern
18. The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. An example:Alice the alligator always allows me to have an allowance.
19. Descriptions that appeal to one or more of the five senses
20. The use of words that begin with the same beginning sound near one another.
21. What is one line of a poem?
22. Shows the speaker's attitude toward his/her subject.
23. Shows a poem's rhyming pattern.
24. The repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words
25. Words or phrases that appeal to any of the five senses or any combination of senses
26. What is the term for when two words within a single line of poetry rhyme?
27. Imagery is language that appeals everything EXCEPT
28. Which term means:prose that resembles poetry
29. A poem for the dead
30. ..... is the repetition of consonant sounds within words or at the ends of words
31. A seven-line stanza
32. Rhyme scheme helps keep ..... and can make the poem fun.
33. Which term means:a literary work idealizing the rural life
34. Which answer correctly displays two words that would create a rhyme?
35. Gives human characteristics to inanimate objects
36. Alliteration can be defined as:
37. Author repeats a word, line, or phrase for the emphasis.
38. Comparison of unlike things using the words LIKE or AS
39. What is the term for repetition of a pattern of syllables or sounds in a line, stanza, or poem?
40. Definition:the repetition of the same sound at the starts of words or phrases that are close together.
41. A poem of serious reflection, typically about death.
42. Grouping of two lines of the same metrical length that rhyme
43. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of line of poetry.
44. An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise
45. The use of words to create pictures in your mind
46. A unit or group of four lines of verse.
47. The author's attitude toward the subject at hand
48. Reference to a statement, a person, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture.
49. When a word imitates the sound of something, it is called .....
50. Repetition of a consonant sound anywhere in words used closely to one another
51. Which of the following is a metaphor?
52. An audible pause internal to a line, usually in the middle. (An audible pause at the end of a line is called an end-stop.) The French alexandrine, Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter, and Latin dactylic hexameter are all verse forms that call for a .....
53. Figurative language that appeals to any of the five senses; "mental pictures" created with words
54. Pair of two lines that contain end rhymes
55. A comparison between 2 unlike things that are unrelated, with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them.
56. Words at the end of lines rhyme
57. Use of words with repeated begining sounds or syllables
58. An image, sound, action, or other figure that has a symbolic significance, and contributes toward the development of a theme
59. A set of syllables in a line of poetry
60. Rhyme that occurs within the same line of poetry
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