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Poetry Terms Quiz 123 (60 MCQs)

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1. Figure of speech where words and phrases with opposite meaning are balanced against each other. Example:To err is human, to forgive divine.
2. A resemblance in consonant sounds between two or more words
3. What kind of rhyme is employed in this lines from a poem:Under my window, a clean rasping soundWhen the spade sinks into gravely ground.
4. When there are at least two rhyming words in a single line of poetry
5. "The best part of music class is that you can bang on the drum" is an example of
6. The pattern of beats in a line of poetry
7. Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?
8. The writer's attitude toward the audience.
9. A description of how something looks, feels, tastes, smells, or sounds.
10. A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or for humorous effect
11. Which word means the formal arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem?
12. The Following is an example of which Poetry Device:"The stars in her eyes"
13. A poem's rhythmical pattern
14. This is a 14 line poem often with a turn and a prescribed rhyme scheme.
15. Enjambment could best be defined as .....
16. Type of poetry where the first, last or other letters in a line spell out a particular word or phrase.
17. Repeating of identical vowel sounds
18. Similar to free verse-poetry that doesn't have a set rhythm, line length, or rhyme scheme
19. "I am smarter than all the scientists in the world!" is an example of:
20. This poetic device is similar to alliteration except repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words, not just at the beginning
21. Who wrote "I LIke to See It Lap the Miles" ?
22. Imagism was a movement in the Modern Literature which .....
23. What is the definition of a haiku?
24. Enjambment and End Stop both represent this term:
25. An ..... is a word or phrase (an expression) which means something different from what it says.
26. The smallest part of a poem is the .....
27. Japanese verse 3 non-rhyming lines in 5, 7, 5 syllables
28. Dumbledore gave a great sniff as he took a golden watch from his pocket and examined it.
29. The repetition of vowel sound in poetry
30. A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed, as in seventeen and to the moon.
31. A comparison using the word "is"
32. Giving human characteristics to describe a non living thing or animal
33. In poetry, there are .....
34. The literary term for exaggeration is called:
35. Repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word repeated through a series of words that are close to each other.
36. A word, line, or phrase in a poem that is repeated.
37. What term refers to a type of poem that tells a story, often with a plot, characters, and dialogue?
38. Refers to a word choice.
39. A rhyme within the same line of poetry
40. "Two people for the price of one" Mr. Yao joked.Add the comma.
41. What is this an example of: "I think that I shall never see/ a poem as lovely as a tree"
42. A four-lined stanza
43. A comparison between two different things using like or as is called:
44. The attitude of the speaker or poet toward the subject of the poem or toward the reader
45. A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme
46. Is a poem where the first letter of each line is the subsequent letter of the alphabet.
47. The rhythm created by the stressed and unstressed pattern of syllables.
48. The author/ writer of text not always the speaker of the poem
49. A sentence or writing becomes ambiguous when:
50. What is the term for a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?
51. When you gonna earn that pay When you gonna play that song and make my day The pattern of the END rhyme is also called the .....
52. Stanza with 3 lines
53. Japanese verse, three lines and 17 syllables
54. The use of the word 'worshipped implies that the narrator thinks she see's him as:
55. Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants.
56. An ode is meant to
57. The word makes the sound ..... boom, bang, hiss, etc .....
58. The process of marking beats in a poem to establish the prevailing metrical pattern. Prosody, the pronunciation of a song or poem, is necessary for scansion
59. A literary device that appeals to one or more of the reader's five senses is known as
60. The people in the poem
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