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Poetry Terms Quiz 24 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the definition of rhyme in poetry?
2. Which is an example of a Pun?
3. The central or unifying idea that is developed in a poem.
4. What is the definition of a alliteration?
5. No regular beat or rhyme
6. What are words that imitate sounds?
7. Consider in the film I Am Legend. Will Smith, the last man on earth, seeks comfort in attempting to speak to a mannequin. This is an example of .....
8. A short, musical poem that usually expresses personal feeling in a short and concise, and beautiful, way.
9. A very tall basketball player standing next to a very short gymnast
10. What is a sentence?
11. When iambic rhythm happens 5 times in a line, making 10 syllables of alternating stresses
12. A type of poetry that has a fixed number of syllables, stanzas, rhyme scheme and/or meter
13. Word pictures created through the use of figurative language or vivid descriptions
14. What is the main characteristic of a ballad?
15. How a poem or text is organized internally based on its ideas
16. Is honor or glorifying an event or inanimate object. Feelings not emotional.
17. What do words like "Bang!" and "Meow!" exemplify in poetry?
18. Words linked because of sound
19. Identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds (also known as near rhyme or slant rhyme):home and same, worth and breath, trophy and daffy.
20. "I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me"is an example of
21. Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.What is this an example of?
22. Words like "achoo! pow! whoosh! splat!" are examples of which literary term?
23. A repetition of similar sounds.Example:She sells seashells by the seashore.
24. When something unexpected happens
25. Which word means "an attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words" ?
26. A two line stanza
27. What type of language is a collection of words and phrases that shares an idea beyond the literal meaning?
28. Rhymes that contain two or more syllables (ex. "lyrical line" and "Einstein")
29. A one word subject present throughout a literary work. Can be used to create a main topic.
30. The beat and pace of a poem and is created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
31. Which word is defined as the "repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words, such as the s in sleep-song" ?
32. Literal language
33. Pattern of rhyme, that repeats across different stanzas
34. A ..... is a group of related lines in a poem
35. A Latin term meaning "in the middle of things"
36. What is the role of the poet in a poem?
37. You can have some rhymes in free verse
38. 'Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade' is an example of
39. What is the rhyme scheme of these lines?"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia StoutWould not take the garbage out.She'd scour the pots and scrape the pansCandy the yams and spice the hams."
40. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.
41. Understatement is
42. Words or phrases that appeal to the five senses
43. Repetition of vowel sounds
44. IN order to complete a Lego set you must Trace or ..... the instructions.
45. A stanza with 8 lines is called .....
46. 'A kitten wailed in a basket dementedly'. 'Dementedly' is:
47. Kirsten Has Worst Idea Ever Kirsten and her friends had been looking forward to performing together in the school talent show for months, but they couldn't agree on what to do in their act. Near the end of a long and disappointing planning session, Kirsten suggested that the girls learn a new song on the recorders that they had purchased for their music class. Not surprisingly, Kirsten's friends immediately called the suggestion out for being the worst idea ever. What type of figurative language is used?
48. The substitution of a related word or phrase for that to which the substitution refers; this device depends on collective understanding
49. Which choice has the most POSITIVE (+) connotation? I admire the man who jumped on the subway tracks to rescue a stranger. He was certainly .....
50. The feeling the reader gets when reading the author's words.
51. Which of the following is NOT a purpose of poetic devices?
52. The use of the same words or phrases over and over
53. What is the repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text?
54. What is a Cinquain?
55. An emotion or something inhuman, such as a mountain or love or a tree, is given human qualities.
56. I ate so much that I think I'm going to explode! This sentence is a clear example of
57. Identify the simile
58. Also known as a "play on words" involving words with similar sounds but different meanings
59. Seven snakes slithered silently
60. Lines are arranged in groups called .....
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