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Poetry Terms Quiz 147 (60 MCQs)

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1. Poems without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm. Some poets use this type of poem to capture the sounds of ordinary speech.
2. "He moves like a black cloud"This line is an example of .....
3. What is this an example of? Jose was like a sad puppy.
4. Is the repetition of ending syllable sounds
5. A seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true. Example: "I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born." Henry David Thoreau
6. The repetition of inner vowel (a-e-i-o-u) sounds in nearby words
7. The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
8. "The squeaky wheel gets the grease" is an example of ..... because it has repeated vowel sounds.
9. Narrative Free Verse Poem
10. This is the giving of human traits to nonhuman things.
11. What vocabulary word means:Work jointly on an activity, especially to produce to create something, cooperate on a project
12. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a line of poetry
13. One thousand stampeding bison thundering across the plainsCouldn't drown out the sound of my heart beating for you. This is an example of
14. "Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard." This line has ..... in it.
15. Roses are Red, Violets are blue, My friend's name is Ted, and he is taller than you. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem above?
16. Words that seem to rhyme because they are spelled identically but pronounced differently. Example:bear/fear, dough/cough/through/bough
17. A brief, sometimes indirect, reference in a text to a person, place, or thing
18. The combination of assonance and consonance ..... The cat in the hat chased the rate.
19. Repeating the same sounds at the ends of words or lines
20. What word means having or ending with a sound that corresponds to another.
21. My brothers are stingrays, calm until provoked.
22. When a writer refers to another character, place, thing, or literary work is called .....
23. Repetition of the same beginning consonant sounds
24. Rhyme that occurs within a line of a verse.
25. A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other (such as: "bittersweet" )
26. A group of lines in a poem, much like a paragraph in prose
27. A magazine article is an example of .....
28. Descriptive language that asks you to use your senses when creating a picture in your head
29. What do a quatrain, sestet, tercet and a quintain all have in common?
30. Poetry without a rhyming structure or a particular rhythm.
31. Using images or symbols to represent an idea
32. "The garbage reached across the state, From New York to the Golden Gate"These lines are an example of .....
33. The place where the poet chooses to end a line, often used to indicate rhythm or to represent meaning.
34. The speaker's attitude towards a subject
35. What is the main purpose of poetry.
36. Which of these contains an adjective?
37. Two or three syllable rhyme, unstressed final syllable (motion-notion, daughter-water, permanent-tournament)
38. A poem mourning the dead
39. A poem in which words are spelled out through the first letter of each line
40. Which word means "the overall organization of lines and/or the conventional patterns of sound" ?
41. You are a cheetah
42. When rhymes follow a particular pattern
43. The pattern of rhyming lines in poetry (ex:AABB, ABAB)
44. This poetic device has a pause or break in the poem for emphasis
45. Who was Robert Browning married to?
46. The use of grammatically similar structures, be they nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, or larger structures.
47. What is language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling?
48. Which contains a correct example of assonance and the correct definition?
49. Which of these is a pun?
50. A word that makes a noise or sound
51. A poem that tells a story. These poems often have all the elements of a short story, including characters, dialogue, setting, conflict, and plot.
52. Which type of poems tell a story?
53. Which of these means "giving nonhuman objects human characteristics?"
54. Each unit of stressed and unstressed syllables
55. A comparison of two unlike objects
56. Occurs when rhyming words come at the ends of lines of poetry
57. Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to place or thing, or a personified abstract idea
58. An indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place or event.
59. He was ..... to go swimming
60. Repeating vowel sounds in nearby words
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