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Poetry Terms Quiz 32 (60 MCQs)

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1. Comparison between two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"
2. The technique of showing that words, phrases, and clauses are comparable in context and importance by placing them side by side and making them similar in form.
3. Words that represent sounds.
4. The repetition of words or ideas for emphasis
5. Comparing 2 things using is, are, was, or were
6. The first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet that sets up the problem of the topic
7. A patterned use of rhyme, specifically at the end of lines is known as what?
8. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
9. What does the word "meter" mean in poetry?
10. Chunks of lines in a poem
11. An idea or feeling that is associated with a word, in addition to its primary meaning
12. Poetry uses ..... devices like rhythm and rhyme.
13. "It's raining cats and dogs"
14. A way of indirectly referring to an idea
15. Simile, Metaphor, Personification are all types of
16. Words "murmur, " "gargle, " and "rumble, " "click, " and "vroom" are examples of what literary device?
17. The following is an example of what? Pitter patter
18. Lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme.
19. "In his poem "Out, Out, " Robert Frost describes a boy who has cut himself with a saw holding his bleeding hand up "as if to keep/The life from spilling." This is an example of metonymy. What is life referring to?
20. Which of these is the speaker of a poem?
21. A repeated passage
22. Who is the person that writes the poem?
23. Who does the captain in the poem "Oh Captain, My Captain" symbolize?
24. These poems use schemes such as ABAB or ABCB
25. Language that means something beyond the literal meaning of the words on a page, it often involves a comparison ..... either stated or implied, a person who uses similes, metaphors, personifications, and hyperboles would be using this kind of language.
26. A stanza or poem that contains four lines
27. Letters of the alphabet are used to mark a poem's .....
28. Words that end in similar but not exact sounds (prove and love)
29. A verse or a set of verses repeated throughout a poem
30. "While I nodded, nearly napping ..... " is an example of .....
31. This ..... in a poem ..... is like a paragraph in an essay. It is one section of the poem, set apart from other sections by a blank line.
32. "Allen Iverson's crossover was so deadly, he could have set up his own podiatry practice"
33. What is "a 5-line, rhymed, rhythmic verse, usually humorous" ?
34. Poems that are shaped to look like their subjects
35. The ..... of the poem "The Poet" is the life of a poet, while the ..... of the poem is traditional:it has seven stanzas of two lines each; the lines of each stanza rhyme and each line has eight syllables.
36. A japanese poem of seventeen syllables; in three lines of five, seven, five.
37. Comparing two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as.
38. The attitude the writer takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character.
39. Characterized by formality, simplicity, and emotional restraint.
40. A reference to an historical person, place, or event.
41. ..... is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.
42. Which type of poem has no rules?
43. "We passed the fields of grazing grain" contains .....
44. A poem usually of fourteen lines and following one several sets of rhyme schemes is known as a
45. Giving human qualities or characteristics to non-living things.
46. What word means a humorous, rhyming five line poems with a specific rhyme pattern and rhyme scheme.
47. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" means
48. Metaphors, similes, & personification are all types of this .....
49. "The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle." is an example of which figurative language?
50. An exaggeration meant for effect
51. Melancholy poem that laments its subject's death.
52. A form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain with the first and the third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas
53. A poem without rhyme
54. Which of these is a proper example of alliteration?
55. A literary term in which one representative term stands for something else.
56. The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
57. This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line. Ex:If this were a poem, this would be an example of the technique
58. Arrangement of words or phrases in a sentence
59. What is a set of lines in a poem with a line space between them?
60. ..... is something literal in the story that stands for or evokes an abstract idea.
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