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Poetry Terms Quiz 31 (60 MCQs)

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1. Where does internal rhyme occur?
2. A type of poem that deals with serious themes and is often dedicated to someone or something
3. When a non-living object is given qualities and abilities of people
4. An extreme exaggeration used to emphasize a point
5. What is poetic structure?
6. A stanza in a poem is similar to a ..... in a story.
7. A reference to a different work
8. Which term refers to the type of poem, such as a haiku, limerick, or sonnet?
9. What is a near rhyme?
10. What term refers to the use of language that is deliberately ambiguous or unclear, often for comic effect?
11. Her laughter was like a warm blanket or a familiar song
12. Descriptive writing that appeals to one or more of the five senses
13. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
14. Literary works focused on the expression of feelings and ideas through a distinctive style that is often rhythmical and may have elements such as meter, rhyme, and stanzas
15. A word that is written and pronounced the same way as another, but which has a different meaning. An example:Lie (to say something untrue) Lie (to be in a horizontal position)
16. Haiku is a kind of..... poem.
17. Something that represents something else
18. A pattern of rhymes at the end of each line
19. A play on words (Example: "orange" you glad I didn't say banana?)
20. What is the definition of tone in poetry?
21. A longer form of poetry that tells an entire story, with a beginning, middle, and end
22. A writer or speaker's attitude toward his subject, audience, or himself.
23. Exaggeration that cannot be possibly true
24. Internal Rhyme is .....
25. A sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme.
26. Type of literature that uses the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words to describe the world in striking and imaginative ways.
27. Which type of poem has 3 lines, about nature, and has a 5-7-5 syllable pattern?
28. The chilling cold chopped him apart.This phrase is an example of all of these except:
29. A stanza with 7 lines is called .....
30. "Flies buzzing in my ear make me feel dizzy" is an example of
31. "Casey at the Bat" is an example of a
32. Sentence structure
33. The narrator of a poem is called .....
34. The pattern of rhyme in verse, usually coded, to represent identical or very similar FINAL sounds in lines of verse. EX:the aabba pattern for limericks.
35. That cat is like a furry demon.
36. Which example below is an example of juxtaposition?
37. Poetic meters such as iambic and anapestic that move or ascend from an unstressed to a stressed syllable
38. Repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words
39. Poetic devices like hyperbole, symbolism, metaphor, and personification all fall into the category of .....
40. A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse.
41. A type of poem in which the first letters of each line form a word.
42. A writer of verse is often called a
43. A trochee follows which pattern of stress?
44. Repetition within consonants at the end of words
45. Read between the lines. Think beyond the text. What is the hidden meaning?
46. A particular method of using sounds in language (alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification etc.)
47. What does "metaphor" mean?
48. A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
49. A sound device in which a word makes the sound
50. What is this an example of? Break a leg.
51. A repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of lines is .....
52. BAM! The door shut behind me.
53. A poem's form is its
54. ..... is the repeating of words, phrases, or lines in a poem.
55. The moonlight danced over the still water on the lake.
56. The children's feet squished in the mud.
57. A comparison between two unlike things thing in which one thing is spoken of as if it is was another
58. Crash, pow, click
59. Arrangement of words in a poetic line or sentence
60. Which type of poetry tells a story?
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