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Poetry Terms Quiz 118 (60 MCQs)

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1. Repetition of beginning sounds
2. A figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other. An example of antithesis is "To err is human, to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope)
3. Choose the onomatopoeia.
4. A reference, usually to another literary work
5. A figure of speech that uses a word or phrase to describe something that it does literally apply to in order to showa similarityis called
6. A long narrative poem focusing on the deeds of a hero is called a(n)
7. Giving human qualities, feelings, actions or characteristics to something that is not alive
8. Perfect rhyme, slant rhyme, terminal pararhyme and terminal semirhyme are all types of?
9. Poetry with regular rhythm (almost always iambic pentameter) but no rhyme
10. Which word means lines that have a similar sound at the end of the line?
11. A poem that tells a story with a plot, characters, setting, and a theme is called:
12. Recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the end of lines of verse
13. Suggested meanings of a word or phrase. The meanings & feelings that have become associated with the word, in addition to its explicit meaning.
14. Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays this way.
15. Did you know that "listen" and "silent" are ..... ?
16. Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry
17. An expression that means something different than what it says.
18. The library was an ocean of books. Metaphor?
19. The wind whistled through the trees during the storm.
20. Poetry that does not follow any set form
21. The Petrarchan Sonnet has
22. Rhythmic writing
23. The use of word whose sound suggests its meaning.
24. The strong and weak beats of a poem establishes its .....
25. An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work
26. Which term below means:the grammatical structure and complete idea continue past the end of the line.
27. This has a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
28. A form of metaphor which in mentioning part signifies a whole
29. A songlike narrative poem that tells a story
30. Read the line below. The angels, not half so happy in heaven, What type of figurative language or stylistic element is found in this line?
31. Fourteen-line lyric poem
32. Repetition of the same initial consonant letter or sounds
33. Taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas
34. What type of sound device is used?The varicolored cloud dust that the sun had stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees.
35. A long, wandering journey
36. Which connotation is most NEGATIVE (-)? We bought ..... souvenirs at the Lagoon amusement park.
37. What is the syllable pattern?
38. What does stanza mean?
39. Organized patters of rhyming words in poetry.
40. Identify the figurative language that is used in the following sentence.The sky was dark and gloomy, and the air was damp and raw.
41. "He grew as tall as a skyscraper once he hit sophomore year." is an example of
42. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another. (Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck)
43. A weak or unaccented syllable
44. Narrative with two levels of meaning, one stated and one unstated.
45. A pair of successive rhyming lines
46. What poetry device is being used in this example:My desk is like a rock.
47. The close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowels
48. Language that is used for descriptive effect, often to imply ideas indirectly
49. Poetry ALWAYS has to rhyme.
50. A ..... of poetry is a row consisting of a word or words that may or may not form a complete sentence.
51. A comparison of one thing to another using the words like or as
52. An action movie trying to be exciting.Exciting is the .....
53. "She is ..... as a juggler / with a black ball and a white ball" ~ MEDEA
54. A word or phase used over and over again for emphasis
55. Which type of figurative language gives human qualities to nonhuman objects?
56. The formation of mental images, figures, or likeness of things or images
57. Poem with a musical rhythm that explores strong emotional feelings
58. A couplet has two lines of verse, that has a rhyme scheme of .....
59. Spelling how words sound. Crackle, pop, fizz, zoom
60. Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines.
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