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Poetry Terms Quiz 142 (60 MCQs)

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1. Rain races, Ripping like wind. It's restless rage rattles like rocks ripping.
2. A rhetorical technique often incorporating irony and humor, in which something is represented as less than it actually is.
3. An epistolary poem
4. "The snow is a white blanket"This is an example of what type of figurative language?
5. What poem is four-lines long?
6. Can be used to group lines of a poem into subjects (like a paragraph does in writing) .....
7. The organization or arrangement of the parts of a poem
8. The central idea of a work, which may be stated directly or indirectly
9. Essay is to paragraph as poem is to
10. Roses are red, Violets are blue, You want to go to bed, And I do, too!The ..... in this poem is ABAB.
11. Which type of rhyme? "When it was through They looked for blue"
12. A stanza with six lines.
13. An attitude or a feeling associated with a word.
14. Which poem is NOT part of the poem possibilities for the portfolio due before Thanksgiving?
15. A poem that has several words that start with the same consonant and are placed close together. For example: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
16. What type of poem is this?Your wonderful wit will haunt us longWounding our grief with memoryYour laughter is a broken song;And death has found you
17. Nonhuman traits human
18. A character who cannot be trusted. Either from ignorance or self-interest, this narrator speaks with a bias, makes mistakes, or even lies.
19. Which term means "the writer's attitude?
20. Which type of poem describes personal feelings and emotion?
21. A part of a poem
22. What vocabulary word means:To fit in with the needs of, provide space for
23. A phrase that compares two things as if one thing IS or WAS the other thing is a .....
24. Creates images in the mind of the reader uses figurative metaphorical language to improve the readers experience.Often appeals to our senses:touch, sight, smell, taste, hear
25. Under the sea swim fishesUnder the sea lurk sharksUnder the sea speed starfishThis is an example of
26. Blankness or emptiness within a poem
27. Extreme exaggeration used for effect rather than for literal interpretation
28. Words that sound like the natural noises they make
29. "If you are a dreamER, a wishER, a liAR, A hope-ER, a pray-ER, a magic bean buyERIf you're a pretendER, come sit by my fiRE"is an example of
30. "The steak was tougher than an anvil."
31. A poem that has three lines and a total of 17 syllables, distributed in a specific 5-7-5 syllable pattern is called a .....
32. Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.
33. If I go crazy, then will you still call me Superman?If I'm alive and well, will you be there and holding my hand?is an example of .....
34. The voice talking to us in the poem is not always the voice of the poet him/herself ..... we call this voice the .....
35. Voice in the poem; the person or thing that is speaking
36. A narrative poem of popular origin is sometimes called a:
37. Let's try this again! A simile can be defined as .....
38. The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in language
39. Repetition is when a writer repeats words or phrases in order to ..... a point.
40. A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writers; style
41. Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words is known as ..... (ex:Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)
42. The literal or dictionary definition of a word.
43. A fourteen-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter.
44. He is as quick as a fox. Life is like a box of chocolates
45. A 3-line Japanese poem
46. Words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions to which they refer.
47. Groups of lines (4 or more)
48. At its peak I stood; its base I pondered. To win or lose are both downhill.
49. Writing that is not poetic (ordinary writing without meter)
50. Two rhymed lines
51. The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant
52. In the Poem by Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay, " poetry is used to compare
53. The use of ..... s to represent ideas or qualities
54. ..... uses words in an imaginative way. It typically involves the use of metaphors, similes, and idioms.
55. Language used to describe one thing in terms of something else. Language that is not intended to be taken literally.
56. Something that stands for or represents something else, especially a concrete object taken to represent something abstract is called:
57. Using the same words or phrases more than once for emphasis
58. What is a stanza with 3 lines?
59. Using the five senses to help the reader experience the way things taste, smell, and feel
60. A comparison developed over a series of lines rather than just within one line
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