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Poetry Terms Quiz 120 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the place where a poet decides to end a line of poetry?
2. A repeated phrase or line in a poem
3. The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of words (sing, fang)
4. Analysts who want to study a poem's meter will mark vertical lines for feet and use accents and lowercase "u"s to mark stress. This process is called ..... a poem
5. What is a unit of rhythm in poetry?
6. The sun laughed at the moon because it could not produce heat. This is an example of .....
7. She sells seashells by the seashoreTres tristes tigres tragan trigo en un trigal
8. A fourteen line lyric poem that has a rhyme scheme according to its type.
9. It was July, and the suntoasted the emerald grassuntil it smelled of warmth and green and life.Q. It was July, and my heartsoaked up the air warmth until it sang of joyand love and life.How many STANZAS does the poem have?
10. Why do people use figurative language?
11. A 3-line poem with syllables of 5, 7, 5 for each line
12. A figure of speech that gives human-like characteristics to an abstract idea or non-human thingis called
13. What figurative language is a reference to something or someone famous?
14. The pattern of rhyming words in a poem, labeled with lower-case letters of the alphabet
15. A figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea is given human characteristics.
16. On the way up north to the cabin, the sunshine sits in my lap all morning. This is an example of:
17. "Love is a rose" is an example of .....
18. What is a group of words together on the same row?
19. My poetry class is not untalented.This is an example of
20. A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme
21. The use of a word or object which represents a deeper meaning than the words themselves is known as .....
22. The person telling the poem is known as the .....
23. What is "the sound that suggests its meaning" ?
24. Close similarity in the final sounds of two or more words or lines of verse
25. Repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE or END of at least two words in a line of poetry.
26. "She kissed my cheek, her lips flipped the switch to the streetlights inside me." This is an example of .....
27. A group of lines in a poem that are separated from each other by a space is called a .....
28. Creation of words to mimic a sound
29. An indirect reference to a previous work or person, place, or event of historical significance is called what?
30. Do all poems rhyme?
31. When an idea or object is given human attributes and/or feelings as if it were human
32. The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences.
33. The attitude of the poet; established through word choice
34. The following quote from William Shakespeare uses which literary device? "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death."
35. Which poetry term refers to the "narrator" of the poem?
36. Repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds.
37. When human qualities are given to nonliving objects is:
38. The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words. (See alsoconsonance and assonance.)
39. 'Oh loving hate' is an example of
40. What form of poetry has no rhythm, line lengths may vary, no rhyming patterns, and expresses feelings and ideas?
41. The way in which a poem is written. These can vary in length.
42. A type of poem that is set to music or tells a story of tragedy of adventure
43. Metaphor:elements are incongruent or contradictory, usually fantastical/absurd ex) dog pulled in its horns
44. The letters you often see at the end of poems to identify patterns refers to the .....
45. Cinquain, free verse, haiku, ballad, limerick, sonnet, ode etc.
46. What type of figurative language is shown?The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky.
47. Skies are cryingI am watchingCatching tear drops in my handsis an example of .....
48. Refers to the pattern of words and silence within a poem; it's "beat"
49. A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally
50. ..... is defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter.
51. The pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of each line, labeled with an uppercase letter.
52. Which poetry term is being used in the following line:'Buzz, hiss, pop'?
53. A long poem with a serious theme usually written to honor people or events
54. How many steps in Mr. Voyak's study plan?
55. What term means:a narrative poem of popular origin
56. The speaker or narrator of a poem who is doing the talking-often not the poet
57. How are stanzas separated?
58. An important message or lesson that an author wants to share either implicitly or explicitly about people or life
59. Which device is used in each example below?Good as goldBusy beeLiving the life
60. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem excerpt? Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
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