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Poetry Terms Quiz 146 (60 MCQs)

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1. Appeals to the senses to create a picture for the reader
2. Words ending in the same sound
3. The repetition of vowel sounds. Hear the mellow wedding bells.-"Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
4. Popular narrative passed down orally.
5. She sells seashells
6. An emphasized or recurring concept in a piece of writing. Ex. death, love, rejection
7. A comparison between two unlike items using the words 'like' or 'as'
8. Which is the correct definition for Internal Rhyme?
9. The form of poetry characterized by following a set structure. Depending on the form, they may have a set number of lines, stanzas or rhyme scheme.
10. Rhythmical pattern determined by the number and arrangement of stressed syllables in each line
11. ..... is the use of repeated words or phrases.
12. What is "the recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses" ?
13. What is a chapter?
14. This form has a stanza of four lines
15. A division in a poem named for the number of lines contains. The most common are couplets (2 lines), triplet (3 lines), quatrain (4 lines), cinquain (5 lines), etc.
16. Using purposeful exaggeration for emphasis
17. What is the definition of the term:Tone?
18. Describes where rhyming words fall within a stanza or verse
19. Which is the correct defintion of alliteration?
20. The man sweats to death/ As he walks along
21. ..... is language that provides a sensory experience using sight, sound, smell, touch and taste.
22. An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
23. "The bees buzzed around the hive" is an example of
24. What do you call the narrator of the poem (the voice in the poem telling the poem)?
25. Comparison of two unlike things in which one thing becomes the other.ex. The sun is a yellow balloon
26. To give human characteristics to inanimate/nonliving objects
27. In most traditional poetry, the rhyme is organized in patterns.
28. A comparison of two unlike things without using like, as, or than
29. A(n) ..... is the imitation of natural sounds using words. For example:The bacon sizzled in the pan.
30. A group of lines in poetry (equivalent of a paragraph in prose)
31. Words formed by imitating the sound they make.
32. What is an approximate rhyme?
33. Lines and sentences are the same.
34. The feeling the reader gets when reading a work
35. The repetition of vowel sounds close together is an example of .....
36. A rhyme within a line of poetry
37. A comparison which asserts that one thing is the equivalent (or equal to) another:
38. The group of lines or "paragraph" of a poem is called a
39. Poetry whose shape matches topics of the poem
40. The lumberjack leveled the many trees, and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.
41. Almost rhyme, or halt rhyme
42. The overall feeling a poem expresses
43. The voice that speaks to the reader
44. Poem that forms the shape of its subject
45. The element of design is slight. The lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning, as paragraphs are in prose. Could contain rhyme, but not in an organized form
46. Language that uses comparisons and non-literal meanings
47. Tells a story in verse ..... has elements of fiction like plot and character
48. The attitude the poet creates in a poem
49. Pick the type of rhyme: "As Twilight long begun / Sequestered afternoon" ~~ Emily Dickinson
50. The process of using a note to explain an idea
51. The baby girl's smile was the sun on dark days. What does the metaphor mean above?
52. A statement in which there is an apparent contradiction which is actually true
53. Bonus Q:Finish this famous line of poetry:I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a .....
54. "Nate ate half rate fish bait" is an example of:
55. The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character. Ex:serious, sarcastic
56. "I have a million things to do!" is an example of which poetic device?
57. Lines of poetry combined into groups, like a paragraph for poetry, is called
58. What is a single metrical line called in poetry?
59. What country do Haiku poems come from? (a)
60. Analyzing a poem for both meter and rhyme scheme is called:
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