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Poetry Terms Quiz 153 (60 MCQs)

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1. Just turn me loose let me straddle my old saddle/Underneath the western skies/On my cayuse let me wander over yonder/ 'Til I see the mountains rise/-Cole Porter, Don't fence me in
2. This is the pattern of sound created by stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
3. Refers to words with the same end sounds
4. In poetry, a word or sequence of words that refers to asensory experience.
5. Poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices.
6. The front desk was my chocolate notebook and I was not letting it go away. No way. What poetry term is used?
7. Define Punctuation
8. A short poem of songlike quality is a limerick.
9. An intricate, extended, or far-fetched metaphor or simile that arouses a feeling of surprise, shock, or amusement.
10. A section of a novel is called .....
11. "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams, And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out. This section of the poem is written in lines of two that rhyme, which is called .....
12. Comparing two unlike things saying one actually is another
13. Parallel Structure
14. Directions:Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. Paul Laurence Dunbar- "We Wear the Mask" We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, ..... This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with countless subtleties.Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, whileWe wear the mask.We smile, but, O great Christ, our criesTo thee from tortured souls arise.We sing, but oh the ground is vileBeneath our feet, and long the mile;But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! #2 The people in the poem use a masquerade to
15. A feeling the author creates
16. Poetry that relays the speaker's personal feelings
17. Descriptive language that creates word pictures
18. A thing that stands for and represents itself and something else.
19. What does "allusion" mean?
20. "I throw down so hard, the fiberglass trembles"
21. Word association
22. The repetition of the same letter or sounds at the beginning of or within adjacent words
23. "I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinoccho's." This is an example of an .....
24. The "Song of Roland" ( "La Chanson de Roland" ) is a poem that tells of the Battle of Roncevaux and of the death of Roland, a trusted ally of Charlemagne. It is a medieval
25. A ballad not meant for singing, written by a sophisticated poet for educated readers, rather than arising from the anonymous oral tradition
26. A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next is .....
27. The way lines rhyme in a stanza of poetry, like ababcc
28. Descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader
29. What is a paragraph?
30. What type of rhyme scheme is demonstrated in the example 'The sky is blue, so bright and clear'?
31. The narrator of the poem is called .....
32. Line structure can be best defined as .....
33. "Because I could not stop for Death / He kindly stopped for me" contains .....
34. A type of literature that focuses on creating powerful emotions in the reader.
35. "Tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession of it." This is an example of what poetic term?
36. A scene or passage in a work evoking pity, sorrow, or compassion in the audience or reader
37. I wish that date would fade from memory.
38. A poetic device where the writer addresses a person or thing that isn't present with an exclamation.
39. What rhyme scheme is an ode?
40. A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration or overstatement
41. Figurative language in which a paradox contains a direct contradiction. Ex:Jumbo shrimp
42. The author's attitude or feeling about the text.
43. What is the poet's attitude about the subject or topic in a poem?
44. Identify what type of figurative language the following sentence displays.Her eyes were diamonds in the moonlight.
45. The individual parts of a poem are its .....
46. Most monsters don't mind making messes.
47. Language that is imaginative and goes beyond the literal meanings of words to create imagery
48. Two words placed close together which are contradictory, yet have truth in them
49. Giving inanimate objects human qualities
50. A fourteen lined poem, usually written in iambic pentameter
51. How the writer feels about what he/she is writing is .....
52. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem excerpt? And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
53. A story or poem's message about life or human nature
54. Simple Simon sighed after he slipped on the sidewalk.
55. If you are looking at DICTION in poetry, what are you focusing on?
56. The overall feeling or atmosphere of the poem that the author tries to create
57. Poem that tells a story; contains characters, conflict, plot .....
58. Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
59. ..... is the repetition of identical sounds located at the ends of words. They can be either repeated consonant sounds or vowel sounds.
60. The suggested meaning of a word or phrase.
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