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Poetry Terms Quiz 22 (60 MCQs)

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1. What are a group of lines in poetry, separated by blank lines?
2. A form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well.
3. The overall feeling created for the reader
4. A ..... is two lines of poetry that usually rhyme.
5. Which is the correct defintion for Enjambment?
6. What is the term for the use of words that imitate sounds?
7. A rhyme that occurs in two consecutive (back to back) lines of poetry is called a .....
8. A Simple Love Poem Your gran'ma, in her youth, was quiteAs blithe a little maid as you.And, though her hair is snowy white, Her eyes still have their maiden blue, And on her checks, as fair as thine, Methinks a girlish blush would glowIf she recalled the valentineShe got, ah! many years ago. A valorous youth loved gran'ma then, And wooed her in that auld lang syne;And first he told his secret whenHe sent the maid that valentine, No perfumed page nor sheet of goldWas that first hint of love he sent, But with the secret gran'pa told ..... "I love you" ..... gran'ma was content. Go, ask your gran'ma if you will, If ..... though her head be bowed and gray ..... If ..... though her feeble pulse be chill ..... True love abideth not for aye;By that quaint portrait on the wall, That smiles upon her from above, Methinks your gran'ma can recallThe sweet divinity of love. Dear Elsie, here 's no page of gold ..... No sheet embossed with cunning art ..... But here 's a solemn pledge of old:"I love you, love, with all my heart."And if in what I send you hereYou read not all of love expressed, Go ..... go to gran'ma, Elsie dear, And she will tell you all the rest! Which sentence summarizes the speaker's thoughts in the poem?
9. Language that strongly appeals to the senses
10. An exaggeration or overstatement
11. This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
12. It is the repetition of vowel sounds within words.
13. A reference to a famous person, place, or event
14. Lyric poetry.....
15. The words share EITHER the same vowel or consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH
16. A reference made in one literary work to an element that appears in another literary work.
17. A stanza of a poem or song
18. The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader.
19. What is the definition of onomatopoeia?
20. Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat
21. What is the definition of the term:End Rhyme?
22. A pattern of rhyming words in a poem.Example:ABABAB
23. It is a poem of 14 lines
24. What is the feeling an author creates for the reader while reading?
25. A word with the opposite meaning of another word
26. A simple poem written about a person
27. A five-line stanza
28. The repetition of VOWEL sound.
29. ..... is a figure of speech that directly compares one thing to another for rhetorical effect. X is Y.
30. A phrase or expression where the actual meaning is very different from the literal meaning.
31. Is a comparison of two things using the words like or as.
32. Which term describes text that gives human characteristics to non-human items and animals?
33. Passing reference to another work
34. This figure of speech is used when a part or pieces represent a whole.
35. A 14 line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter
36. Songlike poems that tell stories of adventure and romance
37. This is when a sound is repeated over and over again. Example:Sally Sold Seashells by the Seashore.
38. What term is defined as a comparison that says one thing is another?
39. Carrying a sentence or a phrase over the end of a line (in poetry)
40. What is the name of a personwho writes poetry?
41. Define slant rhyme.
42. A poetic form that avoids using fixed patterns
43. The author's use of language that appeals to the five senses in order to help the reader imagine exactly what is being described is .....
44. "He weighs a ton" is an example of:
45. The imaginary voice assumed by the writer in the poem is called .....
46. A short lyrical poem, often in praise of something.
47. The number and style of accented syllables in a line
48. Read the following line: "My brother tapped his pencil lightly on the desk as he hummed." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal?
49. What is the purpose of an extended metaphor in poetry?
50. Which word means:'To compare two objects using the words like or as?'
51. How many stanzas does the following poem contain? One foot down, then hop! It's hot.Good things for the ones that's got.Another jump, now to the left.Everybody for hisself. In the air, now both feet down.Since you black, don't stick around.Food is gone, the rent is due, Curse and cry and then jump two. All the people out of work, Hold for three, then twist and jerk.Cross the line, they count you out.That's what hopping's all about. Both feet flat, the game is done.They think I lost. I think I won.
52. Stories that use fantasy to express ideas about life that cannot be expressed easily in realistic terms
53. The mood that influences a reader's emotional response to a poem
54. A collection of lines in a poem that resemble a paragraph.
55. What is:a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" and "as?"
56. A line of poetry in which the grammatical and logical sense run on, without pause, into the next line or lines.
57. Which word means "the overall feeling for the audience an author creates in his or her writing ..... also known as atmosphere" ?
58. Which term means a 14 line poem that follows a set meter and rhyme scheme?
59. ..... refers to a pause within a line of verse.
60. A metaphor that does not tell us directly that one thing is something else; instead it uses words that suggest the nature of the comparison
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