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Poetry Terms Quiz 16 (60 MCQs)

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1. A type of lyric poem that addresses broad, serious themes such as justice, truth, or beauty.
2. What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words?
3. Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea.
4. A comparison between two unlike things using like or as or as if
5. Crash, bang, buzz, swish, and splash are all examples of what sound device?
6. Shakespearean sonnet
7. A repetition of sounds throughout several words in a line
8. "Save me from the hateful sea and the jagged lightning and the violence of love." ~~ MEDEA
9. When a line in a poem breaks and continues onto the next line?
10. What is the rhyme scheme of the following stanza ..... Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of MayAnd summer's lease hath all too short a date.
11. This is the universal idea, meaning, or message of a text.
12. The meaning, associations, and feelings given to a word by society are its what?
13. A form of poetry written in iambic pentameter, but which does not rhyme. The most famous examples are "Paradise Lost" by John Milton and the plays of William Shakespeare
14. Matching ending sounds in two or more words
15. Newspapers and textbooks are written in .....
16. Verses; how the poem is divided.
17. ..... is when the final accented vowel and succeeding consonants are identical.
18. The repetition of inner and ending consonant sounds of nearby words that do not rhyme
19. I'm nobody! || Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there's a pair of us ||-don't tell!They'd banish ||-you know!
20. What is consonance?
21. "She is like a rich jewel" is an example of a
22. A three-line Japanese poem form, containing exactly 17 syllables, usually about nature
23. A brief reference to a real of fictional person, event, place, or work of art
24. Group of lines in a poem that form a unit
25. The splendour falls on castle wallsAnd snowy summits old in story:The long light shakes across the lakesAnd the wild cataract leaps in glory.
26. What device is used here:"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary ..... "
27. He was as fast as a rocket.
28. There was an old man at the Cape Who made himself garments of crape When asked "Will they tear?" He replied "Here and there, But they keep such a beautiful shape!"
29. Metaphors use like or as to compare two things.
30. What is a group of words in a poem, like sentences in a story, called?
31. "Fire flamed ferociously throughout the farmer's field." is an example of which sound device?
32. What makes the music in poetry. It also helps you memorize poems and songs?
33. A set rhythmic pattern in poetry; the pattern of the beats.
34. Compare 2 unlike objects using "like" or "as"
35. What is the correct spelling of the word that means the ideas and feelings that words bring to mind.
36. Division of lines into groups.
37. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. An example:My love is a red, red rose.
38. Can Was Hiding Behind Crackers Ralph Davis wanted to make a tuna fish sandwich last Wednesday, but wasn't able to because he couldn't find the tuna fish can. The can eventually turned up behind a box of saltine crackers that Mr. Davis removed from the cupboard when he had chili for dinner last night. "The tuna can had been hiding at the back of the shelf all along, " Mr. Davis marveled. What type of figurative language is being used?
39. The continuation of a sentence beyond a line break, couplet, or stanza without an expected pause.
40. Patterns of words that sound the same
41. A poetic device that can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhyme with one another.
42. The following are examples of what? Student teacher, jumbo shrimp, larger half, seriously funny
43. An object which carries more meaning than simply the dictionary definition.
44. What is the correct term for the following definition? The use of words that imitate sounds:buzz, screech, hiss, bang, pow, boom, etc.
45. Has little or no pre-established form or guidelines:
46. All night long with rush and lull/ The rain keep drumming on the roof
47. When something represents a bigger idea
48. Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
49. Her eyes dance in the moonlight, is an example of:
50. The number of beats/syllables in a line of poetry
51. What's the rhyme scheme?You just want attention, you don't want my heartMaybe you just hate the thought of me with someone newYeah, you just want attention, I knew from the startYou're just making sure I'm never gettin' over you
52. Written with "he or she or they" as the subject; The narrator and reader are outside the story. Pronouns:he, she, it, they, them, him, her, his, hers, its
53. A nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
54. Repetition of the same sounds in a line
55. Repetition of consonant sounds in a given group of words close together. (Initial/beginning sounds).
56. Comparison between 2 unlike things using like or as
57. ..... is a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions.
58. A comparison between two things WITHOUT the words "like" or "as" .
59. The lesson you learn from a piece of writing is called the .....
60. Which of the following pairs of words rhyme?
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