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Poetry Terms Quiz 130 (60 MCQs)

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1. AABB, ABAB, ABCB are examples of .....
2. A ..... is an extended metaphor with complex logic, or a startling comparison, that governs a poetic passage or an entire poem.
3. Which is an example of tone?
4. The description of an object, an animal, a place, or an idea as if it were human
5. This gives human like qualities or abilities to nonhuman things
6. Stories told in song, using the voice and language of everyday people. They were composed orally, and singers often added or changed details to make the songs meaningful for their audience.
7. The way a word makes you feel
8. The literary device of ..... is giving non living things human like characteristics or qualities
9. The crocodile's teeth are white daggers.
10. A line or group of lines in a poem separated from other lines by extra white space
11. Groupings of words
12. Sounds that imitate meanings (pop, fizz, hiss)
13. In poetry, "feet" describes
14. Long narrative poems that are written in heightened language and tells the stories or the deeds of a heroic character
15. Rhyme Scheme:I love cats, and I like dogs.But most of allI like bats.
16. What term means a "voice" that talks to readers?
17. Address to an absent or imaginary person
18. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" uses what type of sound device?
19. "I'm so tired I could sleep a year" is an example of
20. Words that have a similarity in sound but are not exact rhymes.
21. Which of these best matched the definition of tone?
22. Exaggeration is when something is made out to be a lot greater than it actually is."It's a million degrees in here!"
23. Bittersweet is an example of:
24. (n.) a speech by one actor; a long talk by one person
25. Eight-line unit in a poem
26. A story within a story:this often teaches a lesson or represents a larger idea/event.
27. "Filthy McNasty is a mythical manchild of rather dubious distinction"
28. Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep is an example of .....
29. In Shel Silverstein's poem, "Where the Sidewalk Ends", what best represents the place where the sidewalk ends?
30. Phrases or lines in a poem that repeat are called .....
31. Caesura is best defined as .....
32. The repetition of consonant sounds close together is .....
33. Which of the following does NOT create mood in a story?
34. Which on of the five senses is used in this sentence? "The warm juicy burger was like heaven on my tongue."
35. A comparison of two unlike things that uses "just so" or "as" and is developed over several lines of verse.
36. Uses you, your, yours
37. "Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin is a pleasure."The inversion in this line shows which structure of poetry?
38. When words rhyme at the end of lines
39. Placing side by side two contradictory words that make logical sense when explained.
40. Tells a story (includes ballads, epics)
41. This is an example of:The class was happy as a clam.
42. Identify the meaning of the idiom "Can't judge a book by its cover."
43. Words with identical sounds but different meanings (e.g. raise/raze, stair/stare) are
44. A stressed (or accented) syllable.
45. The word "Mockingbird" is an example of what pattern
46. A poem that expresses the poet's thoughts and feelings, and creates a mood through vivid images.
47. "She broke down in tears when she saw the ring in the box." is an example of .....
48. Being bored in an action movie. Bored is the .....
49. Stanza 4 is important to the poem because it shows-
50. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Which of the following statements contain no errors?
51. ..... is giving human characteristics to something that is not human.
52. The repetition or pattern of similar vowel sounds:"Moses supposes his toeses are roses"
53. What is the purpose of using litotes in poetry?
54. "Greasy napkins, cookie crumbs, Globs of gooey bubble gum" The end rhyme here is an example of .....
55. The rhythm or "beat" of a poem.
56. The following lines show an example of what:How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!
57. What is it called when a metrical foot consist of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable?
58. A type of poetry that utilizes the techniques of drama; the speaker is clearly someone other than the poet
59. What is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem?
60. What is a poem that honors a particular person, thing, or event?
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