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Poetry Terms Quiz 28 (60 MCQs)

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1. "I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland, To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men, Who will cut off your nostrils with a sharp bronze sword; He will tear of your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw." ..... Homer, The Odyssey Which word best describes the tone of the passage?
2. Two lines of poetry joined by a similar rhyme
3. A pause created within a line of poetry made by inserting a punctuation mark (comma, semicolon, or period)
4. A line of poetry that ends with a period, comma, or other method of pause
5. What word means the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
6. A humorous imitation of an art form
7. How an author feels about a subject.
8. Which of the two basic elements is the main unit of poems?
9. What poetic device is exemplified by the following phrase: "all hands on deck" or "wheels" meaning a car?
10. What is a reference to another work of literature, art, person, or event?
11. Writing that creates pictures in the reader's mind.
12. An animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities is called .....
13. An overstatement or extravagant exaggeration, so far exaggerated that it cannot be taken literally. I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse.
14. Attributing human characteristics to a non-human thing is
15. When a poet uses descriptive words that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and/or taste, the poet is using .....
16. Words that make a sound
17. In order to get the best score on a test you must pace your self or .....
18. What is the use of any element of language (sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence) more than once?
19. Poetry without a regular pattern is called
20. If a liar says "I'm lying right now." Is he lying or not?
21. A humorous play on words is a
22. The feeling or atmosphere that the poet creates
23. The are many different types of ..... that each have their own predictable structure and pattern.
24. Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese.
25. Writing arrange with metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme
26. A stanza can have different numbers of lines.
27. An expression of ideas or feelings in words, usually having a form, rhythm, and rhyme
28. (in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
29. What are made by repeating similar sounds in the last words of different lines?
30. Rhyme within one line of poetry
31. Which of the following terms is defined as:the emotions or feelings that are conveyed in a literary work
32. A poem that tells a story and has narrative elements (plot, protagonist, etc.)
33. "April is the cruelest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain."
34. A direct comparison between unlike things with similar qualities, not using "like" or "as" .
35. The repetition of consonant sounds, most often at the beginnings of words and syllables
36. When lines are organized in units of meaning; always separated by extra white space.
37. "In this game of life, your family is the court and your ball is your heart"
38. What is a Free Verse
39. The sound and feel created by the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables
40. Betty Botter bought some butter Which literary device is used here?
41. A semantic field is
42. Giving an animal human-like qualities
43. An intentional exaggeration or overstatement
44. Writing that creates mental pictures through figurative language, descriptions, and sensory words
45. The old woman I saw at the park looked one billion years old! This is an example of .....
46. Repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words (lovely lonely lights)
47. What is the definition of the term:Onomatopoeia?
48. If a phrase, word, or sound are used more than once in a poem
49. The feeling a reader gets from a piece of literature
50. Poetry that does not have to follow a specific form or rhyme
51. Identify the couplet:2 lines that have end rhyme!
52. The voice telling the poem
53. When the words at the ends of the lines rhyme. Also known as external rhyme
54. Words that imitate the sounds they make
55. Repeated sounds at the end of lines of poetry
56. Speech patterns used in specific regions
57. Four lines in a sonnet or in any poem
58. The novels we read are .....
59. This is when an author constructs parts of a sentence to be grammatically similar.
60. What type of poem has 14 lines written in a certain meter and with a special rhyme scheme?
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