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Poetry Terms Quiz 132 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is a group of lines in a poem, like paragraphs in a story, called?
2. A poem that portrays or evokes country life, typically in a romanticized or idealized form
3. What is:a word or picture that represents a deeper idea or concept?
4. How are stanzas set apart?
5. Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
6. Repeated sounds at the end of words is also known as .....
7. Groups of words that poetry is divided into
8. What is the purpose of dramatic poetry?
9. A story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for truths about human life.
10. A group of lines that form the basic metrical unit in a poem
11. A sonnet is a lyrical 16-line poem
12. When a poem has lines ending with the same sounds, it is called .....
13. A verse made up of four lines
14. Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement (NO strict meter or rhyme scheme)
15. What is the tone of the following passage? The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it ..... hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.
16. Descriptive language that appeals to the senses.
17. A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme.
18. What is the repetition of words (or phrases) at the start of a series of lines in a poem for dramatic effect called?
19. The use of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence-more than once
20. Poetry that does not follow a regular rhytmic pattern or rhyme scheme.
21. In drama, the presentation of essential information regarding what has occurred prior to the beginning of the play
22. What is the purpose of "A Poison Tree, " by William Blake?
23. The repeating of consonants at the end of words
24. The feelings that words bring about
25. Language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind is .....
26. Which type of figurative language shows extreme exaggeration for dramatic emphasis.
27. I lift myself.I raise, Unafraid and daring.
28. A figure of speech comparing two things using like or as
29. How many lines does a quatrain have?
30. Repetition of consonant sounds either within or at the end of words.
31. A poem with a shape that suggests its subject; the poet arranges letters, words, punctuation, and lines to create a picture
32. Match the definition with the correct vocabulary word. When a story is told from the perspective of one of the characters.
33. A poem that is not written in a particular rhyme, stanza, or form.
34. John is going to judge a juggling jamboree in July.
35. Four lines are called
36. A five-line poem with the rhyme scheme of AABBA. Lines 1, 2 and 5 have the same number of syllables (usually nine) and lines 3 and 4 are shorter. A limerick is funny and tends to have an unexpected ending
37. The repetition of an entire line or group of lines in a poem
38. Which type of poem has TWO lines that make up a stanza?
39. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using a phrase that includes the word like or as
40. Vivid description using the five senses
41. Candy is ..... she loves
42. The repetition of ending sounds
43. The systematic arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry, creating a rhythmic pattern
44. The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words that are near each other in poetry or in writing.
45. Which connotation is MORE negative? I didn't like the ..... on the jester's face.
46. The longest river in the world. It flows north from Uganda in East Africa through Sudan and Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea.
47. A special type of creative writing that doesn't usually follow a set of rules and is made up of stanzas and lines is called a-
48. Which sets of words are examples of onomatopoeia?
49. Poems are mostly made of .....
50. Poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm
51. What is the general term for methods like alliteration that are used by an author to emphasize specific sounds in poetry?
52. Which connotation is MORE negative? It made me feel .....
53. A poem that tells the reader a story
54. Comparing two or more unlike things using like or as
55. Creates a picture in the reader's mind
56. Using a word or phrasethat does not actually name an object, but represents a part of it or a related idea, in order to reference the whole thingis called
57. "Running the trail was a breeze" is an example of
58. A narrative poem, intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain.
59. The author of the poem is .....
60. Two back-to-back lines that rhyme
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