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Poetry Terms Quiz 141 (60 MCQs)

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1. An idiom is a phrase or expression whose meaning can't be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words in it. Which below is an idiom?
2. Acrostic poems are best described as
3. A lyric poem expresses the personal thoughts and feeling of a speaker.
4. One of two or more words or phrases that end in the same sound.
5. This is the way in which the words or lines are arranged on a page
6. The use of language that is visually descriptive and appeals to the senses.
7. Poetry that is free from regular meter, rhyme, rhythm and fixed forms is .....
8. Facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid
9. What is the poetry term for the repetition of beginning consonant sounds?
10. The words of the poem "darkest evening of the year" and "dark and deep" create what kind of MOOD in the poem?
11. End rhyme is where the rhyming words are at the ..... of lines?
12. A group of lines in a poem $\rightarrow$ tone
13. Repeating patterns of sound in poems (the "beat" of the poem)
14. A reference to another work of literature, work of art, historical event, or pop culture in a story or poem is .....
15. Consonance is the repeating of consonants.
16. Explain the concept of personification in poetry.
17. The use of very descriptive, sonsory language
18. Poem of mortal loss and consolation
19. Which type of poetry is usually set to a musical rhythm?
20. The repetition of the same (or similar) vowel or consonant sounds or constructions. A rhyme at the end of two or more lines of poetry is called an end rhyme.
21. ..... takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds.
22. One line in a poem
23. A symbolic work in which characters, events, and settings represent cultural concepts. Characters are often abstractions personified.
24. This is the meaning, moral, or main message that the writer wishes to share with the reader.
25. What is a single line in a poem?
26. A comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as.
27. The repeated use of words, phrases, lines, ideas, or stanzas in a poem for effect or emphasis.
28. Repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words
29. A form of repetition in which only the beginning of phrases are repeated.
30. What is a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem?
31. The name of a 5-line poem that begins with a noun and end with a synonym for the noun in the first line.
32. The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words
33. A poem that is structured as a story/narrative
34. A kind of metaphor that uses like or as to compare two things:A is like B
35. Language that appeals to the senses. Helps the reader imagine look, sound, touch, smell, taste.
36. Compares two unlike things without using like or as
37. Which poetry term can be found in the following example? Ike lies in ice cream.
38. End Stop can be best defined as .....
39. Which term means a word that sounds like what it means?
40. A genre of poetry that expresses personal and emotional feelings.
41. What might happen if you heard an idiom you weren't familiar with?
42. A comparison of two unlike objects using "like" or "as"
43. The use of an object, person, place, or idea to represent something beyond its literal meaning, often used to convey deeper layers of meaning or themes in a poem
44. This refers to the way a poem is presented to the reader.
45. Emotional associations
46. Which list of words is NOT related to poetry?
47. Emotional or figurative value of words that goes beyond dictionary definition
48. Comparing something using like or as
49. An exaggerated statement is a .....
50. Reversal of usual order of words to achieve emphasis.
51. A line of poetry containing three metrical feet
52. A word whose sound is similar to a thing to action.
53. A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.(Like a beat in music)
54. How do we refer to the "voice" we hear when reading a poem?
55. A group of lines or "poem paragraphs"
56. What is the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words? Example:Iris irons irregularly.
57. Which of these lines from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" contains alliteration?
58. Types of Stanzas:A four-line stanza is .....
59. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of a word.
60. Perhaps because bats are nocturnal in habit, a wealth of thoroughly unreliable legend has grown up about them, and men have made of the harmless, even beneficial little beasts a means of expressing their unreasoned fears. Bats were the standard paraphernalia for witches, the females half of humanity stood in terror that bats would become entangled in their hair. Phrases crept into the language expressing man's revulsion or ignorance- "Bat's in the Belfry, " "Batty, " "Blind as a Bat."
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