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Poetry Terms Quiz 25 (60 MCQs)

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1. Highly musical verse
2. A sound device in which a word makes the sound is called .....
3. Which of the following is NOT an example of onomatopoeia?
4. An obvious and intentional exaggeration
5. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as "like" or "as."
6. A collection of words written to inspire ideas, imagination, or emotion
7. What word is defined as "a common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally" ?
8. The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day. The rhyme scheme of the poem is .....
9. A line of verse where a logical or rhetorical pause occurs at end of line, usually marked with period, comma, or other punctuation
10. In poetry, what do we call a group of lines?
11. The following is an example of what? That student is the Devil; she has thrown papers at others, tripped her teacher, and refuses to do any work.
12. Pizza Slice Called to Dieter Gary Nielson was planning to have a green salad for lunch until his boss ordered pizza for everyone in the office. "I knew that I really should have stuck to my diet, but I couldn't resist the temptation when the pizza started to call my name, " Mr. Nielson explained. Which type of figurative language is used?
13. When a poet doesn't end a line with punctuation and the thought continues on a new line
14. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.
15. Slight and subtle differences in shades of meaning.
16. Fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
17. When a word in the middle of the sentence rhymes with a word at the end of the sentence.
18. Like the chorus of a song
19. The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants; vowel rhyme
20. Five iambic feet
21. Using five senses to create visual images for the reader
22. A figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another; for example, "my love is a fragile flower."
23. Repetition of beginning sounds in words
24. The end of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line
25. Pair of rhyming lines, usually the same meter and length
26. Repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of words
27. Repeating the same words, phrases, lines, or stanzas
28. Which of the following literary tools is a comparison that uses "like" or "as" ?
29. Using the same sound or letter at the beginning of words or lines
30. Specific type of alliteration that relies on the repetition of soft consonant sounds in words to create a wooshing or hissing sound in the writing
31. The house was a wreck.
32. A five line humorous poem
33. Words with the same ending sound that appear at the end of a line in poetry
34. The repetition of the sound of a vowel
35. Rhetorical device in which words initially presented are restated in reverse order.
36. Words that appeal to the five senses
37. Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste)
38. A couplet is 2 lines
39. The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the ends of lines of poetry
40. A big idea addressed throughout a work, usually expressed as an abstract noun, like "love"
41. "The flowers waltzed in the gentle summer breeze." is an example of
42. Using language that creates mental images in order to describe something; includes details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
43. To have put off until a future time.
44. Most basic unit of poetry; similar to a sentence in prose
45. Meter is best defined as.....
46. Which term is this the definition for:Recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines.
47. Which type of poem is three lines split into syllables of 5, 7, 5?
48. Things are compared by stating that one thing is another.
49. The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables
50. Eagles=United Statesdove=peacered roses=lovelions=power and strengthThese are all examples of:
51. Repeated word or series of words in response or counterpoint to the main verse, as in a ballad.
52. What figurative language device is usedin this sentence? Be ready when opportunity comes knocking at your door.
53. A figure of speech that offers and exaggerated or extravagant statement (that is not meant to be taken literally) in order to highlight a point is called .....
54. The pattern of beats or stresses in a poem is .....
55. The use of a word or a phrase that actually imitates the sound it describes
56. "I think a storm is coming"is an example of .....
57. "CRASH!" is an example of .....
58. Which type of poetry avoids the use of regular rhyme, rhythm, meter, or division into stanzas
59. The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in stressed syllables (blade, maze, take)
60. Physical structure of the poem; length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition
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