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Poetry Terms Quiz 149 (60 MCQs)

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1. "greenery, machintery, scenery" is an example of:
2. The process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes
3. The ..... of a poem is revealed and supported by all of the other elements.
4. Silly Sally sells shells by the seashore is an example of .....
5. The use of the same sound to start several words in a row is called
6. Dramatic monologue
7. What vocabulary word means:Important, Famous
8. What is the setting in poetry?
9. A small part of a larger work. For example, one chapter of a novel or one paragraph of an article.
10. What is this sentence an example of: "The wind howled during the thunderstorm" ?
11. A pair of lines, usually written in the same form
12. The feelings created in the reader by the poem; can be affected by the tone
13. Japanese nature poem, three lines in length; 17 syllables, 5-7-5
14. The ideas and feelings associated with a word (positive, negative, or neutral) are the .....
15. What is:a repeated phrase appearing word for word?
16. A pair of lines next to each other than rhyme are called a rhyming .....
17. The repetition of the first consonant sound in words
18. Refers to the voice that speaks the poem and is NOT usually the actual author of the poem; also known as a PERSONA (Latin for mask)
19. What is plagiarism?
20. A reference to a famous person, place, event or other work of literature.
21. A reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature
22. Describes one thing as if it were something else
23. Is repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry
24. Bitter or cutting speech, said with the intention to hurt
25. A metrical unit consisting of a pair of unstressed-stressed syllables
26. "If I can't get a smartphone, I will die!"
27. What kind of poem is the following example from Crossover? "The Red Rockets, defending county champions, are in the house tonight.They brought their whole school.This place is oozing crimsonThey're beating ustwenty-nine to twenty-eightwith less than a minute to go.I'm at the free-throw line.All I have to do is make both shotsto take the lead.The first is up, UP, and ..... CLANK! ..... hits the rim ..... "
28. A reference to another person, place or text
29. A three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, it emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression
30. The use of specific objects or symbols to represent ideas
31. The central topic, subject, or message in a written work.
32. The characteristic way that a writer uses language to achieve certain effects
33. 'The car danced across the icy road' is an example of what?
34. Which of the following terms is defined as:the effect of language in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated; or the effect of a situation in which the opposite of what one would have thought is actually what occurs
35. An address to an absent person, an abstraction, or an inanimate object as if it were able to reply
36. The person who wrote the poem; the author of the poem
37. A group of lines in a poem. People often mistakenly call them paragraphs.
38. Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single person; usually musical
39. "There was a Young Lady whose nose, Was so long that it reached to her toes;"
40. A 5 line, rhymed, rhythmic poem that is usually humorous.
41. Read the following sentence: "I am as smart as a fox." This is an example of a .....
42. She tried to make a short version of the story or ..... it.
43. ..... is a big exaggeration, usually with humor.
44. What is a word that represents a sound?
45. The use of repeated words, phrases, images, or symbols
46. When the words start with the same letter.
47. What is the term for the main message or lesson in a poem?
48. Emotional quality of a story or poem
49. What is meter measured in?
50. When a reader or audience is aware of something that a character isn't
51. Rhyme which occurs within a single line of verse
52. The time, place, and cirmcumstances that the poem is about.
53. Type of poetry that is meant to be performed
54. Giving inanimate objects human qualities, such as "the sun kissed her cheeks on the hot summer day" is known as
55. A group of words in poetry that may or may not be a complete sentence
56. Repeating similar sounds of consonants, not necessarily at the beginning of the words
57. Which of the following is the definition of tone?
58. ..... is a technique in which the normal order of words is reversed. This is often done to maintain a particular rhyme scheme or meter, and sometimes for artistic effect.
59. A reference to another text, historical event, art, etc.
60. Not-rhyming lines that follow the natural rhythms of speech
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