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Poetry Terms Quiz 148 (60 MCQs)

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1. ..... is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
2. Poetry that uses a strict meter (a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables) and a strict rhyme scheme
3. What is the definition of the term:Perfect Rhyme?
4. Which word is considered figurative language?
5. A type of free verse poem where the first letter of each line, read down the page, spells the subject of them poem
6. The emotion in the poem created by the poet and also what the reader feels while reading the poem
7. 3-line Japanese verse; 5-7-5 pattern
8. A direct comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."
9. Divisions of a poem
10. A sentence of a poem
11. Stylistic device in which the repeated vowel sound to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
12. What type of poetry has no pattern?
13. What is the term for the main idea or message of a poem?
14. The repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words
15. In poetry, a stanza is like a ..... in prose.
16. "Sally saw a starfish singing by the sea" is an example of
17. Words or phrases in writing that should not be taken literally:
18. Finding the meaning of the poem is called
19. Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
20. "The wave was a tall monster" is an example of:
21. The pattern of rhyme
22. "Nature's first green is gOLD, Her hardest hue to hOLD.Her early leaf's a flOWER;But only so an hOUR."is an example of
23. The repetition of vowel sounds, like the ones in "Hear the mellow wedding bells! From the molten, golden notes!" is an example of which sound device?
24. The pattern of beats or stresses in language.
25. Tells of dramatic or emotional stories/situations (popular pop songs) (a narrative set to music)
26. Repetition of similar consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables as in "wind" and "sand"
27. Words that express sensory details
28. An imaginative comparison where one thing is said to be another thing (My brother's room is a pigsty.)
29. The repetition of the same ending sound in two or more words
30. The ..... of a word refers to other words, ideas, images that we associate with a specific word (i.e. "red" is associated with fire, blood, or anger).
31. Anaphora can best be defined as .....
32. Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds (Ex. Lamp/Stamp)
33. In a book or poem the author will tend to use imagery or ..... to better explain ideas.
34. The repeating of beginning consonant sounds in a group of words.
35. A strong regular repeating pattern or movement
36. What are rows of text in a poem called?
37. A "run-on" line that carries over into the next to complete its meaning.
38. Poem that has no formal structure, no rhythm, and no rhyme
39. Which word means a short poem that expresses personal feelings?
40. The emotional association of a word is called the
41. A metrical foot of two syllables, first stressed and second unstressed
42. "The waves beside them danced; ..... "This line is an example of .....
43. A poem in which the poet either expresses their feelings or emotions
44. The symbolic meaning
45. Which connotation is MORE positive? We saw ..... animals in the animal house.
46. A figure of speech that uses like or as to compare two unlike things
47. A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other.
48. A 14-line lyrical poem
49. The comparison of two unlike things is called
50. The choice of a particular word as opposed to others.
51. A couplet is..... lines.
52. Dramatic character, distinguished from the poet, who is the speaker of a poem
53. A group of words or text on one line
54. An obvious and impossible exaggeration is:
55. What is being personified:During the night, the rain yelled at us.
56. A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length.
57. What is this an example of? The leaves danced across the lawn.
58. Examples include:metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia
59. If I say "Chocolate is my kryptonite, " that is an example of a/an ..... to Superman's weakness to kryptonite.
60. I have a hatShe has a catWe both like bats
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