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Poetry Terms Quiz 14 (60 MCQs)

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1. This is a group of lines in a poem. The lines are separated by space.
2. What is the definition of stanza?
3. The dictionary definition of a word
4. "My head was a burning bush after we finished jogging" is an example of:
5. A line is the same thing as a sentence
6. Mrs. Robinson expects Cassie and my presentation to be good, but we have been working on it every night for the last week, so we are really going to knock her socks off.
7. The voice that talks to the reader in a poem; similar to the narrator of a story; not necessarily the author
8. Fourteen line poem with a fixed form(Rhyme Scheme). Shakespearean (English/Elizabethan)
9. Extreme exaggeration
10. The attitude the poem's narrator has toward the subject
11. A NARRATOR'S attitudes or beliefs about an event, person, or place based on their own personal experiences.
12. The giving of human qualities to ideas, animals, or objects is called
13. Mask or voice assumed by a writer.
14. What is the purpose of assonance in poetry?
15. What is a stanza in poetry?
16. What is "repeating the same sound at the beginning of words" ?
17. Repetition of vowel sounds within neighboring words.
18. A poem that does not rhyme and does not have a regular meter or rhythm is called-
19. Rhyming words that fall at the END of a line of poetry.
20. A single row of words in a poem is called a .....
21. True or False:A stanza is a paragraph in a poem.
22. A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or entire line is repeated
23. Moving to a scene that is in a time later in the story
24. Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse
25. Forgive these wild and wandering cries, Confusions of a wasted youth;Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise.What is the rhyme scheme of these lines from a poem?
26. Pictures drawn in the reader's mind by the words of the poet
27. What is an example of assonance?
28. Words or phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses
29. What is writing that addresses a person or thing that is not present called?
30. Choose the definition for:theme
31. How many poems are required (for full credit) for the poetry portfolio
32. It means exactly what it says
33. A haiku has how many lines
34. What figurative language is used in this sentence?"The boy was as fast as a rocket as he sped by on his bicycle"
35. Which poetic term is defined as "the repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds" ?
36. Where you're madder than I amI'm with you in Rocklandwhere you must feel very strangeI'm with you in Rocklandwhere you imitate the shade of my motherI'm with you in Rockland
37. My brother is as stubborn as a mule. Is this an example of
38. An expression of ideas or feeling in words, usually having a form, rhythm, and rhyme.
39. Dan does not like donuts! This is an example of .....
40. Groupings of lines (couplet, tercet, quatrain, etc)
41. The oldest form of narrative verse that has a strong beat.
42. A phrase like "Oh God, why is my life so gloomy?" is an example of which of these:
43. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a ballad
44. The tone conveys
45. What is juxtaposition?
46. Examples of this include: "hissed, " "crackle, " and "splash."
47. A direct comparison of two things that are not really that does not use like or as
48. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language.
49. A humorous yet frequently bawdy verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba.
50. ..... is a poem that tells a story and has a plot, setting, and characters.
51. The Tortoise and the Hare is an example of .....
52. Poem with 14 lines, 10 syllables in each line, and often uses the rhyme scheme of ABAB-CDCD-EFEF-GG.
53. A person who writes a poem
54. How a poem is organized
55. The repeated use of an s or s sound (clue:creates an almost hissing sound)
56. One who tells, or narrates, a story; the storyteller; the voice of the story; there are 3 main types, although writers are known to blend / switch in their stories
57. If you are thinking about how something is written rather that what is written, you are thinking about .....
58. No recognizable rhyme scheme
59. ..... is a pattern of stressed syllables that create a beat.
60. ..... is a strong, repeated, regular pattern of sound in a poem, often created by the poem's meter.
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