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Poetry Terms Quiz 35 (60 MCQs)

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1. The mail man mailed the material next month.
2. The way words are arranged on a page-how words look on paper
3. Lines with no prescribed pattern or structure-the poet determines all the variables as seems appropriate for each poem
4. After they presented their project they listed their sources of information or their .....
5. Poetry that doesn't have any line, rhyme scheme, meter, or any other requirements
6. Which type of sound device is used? "I used my usual maneuver to escape."
7. A play on words, either on different senses of the same word or on the similar sense or sound of different words
8. A line that ends with punctuation, indicating a pause when reading
9. What is the physical shape, structure, or appearance of a piece of writing called?
10. The repeated use of a word, phrase, line, or stanza
11. Bonus question:What is the term for using the dictionary meaning of a word?
12. Comapring two things using "like" or "as" .
13. Which word means a basic unit of poetry, similar to a sentence?
14. A group of two lines in poetry.
15. What are a group of lines within a poem called?
16. The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
17. Long narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes, elevated in style and usually follows certain patterns
18. The use of repetition of sounds at the beginning of words (ex. snake sneaked)
19. Which phrase has the most POSITIVE (+) connotation?
20. Words that are used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true is called .....
21. The sleeping geese recline their heads.
22. How does a metaphor enhance the meaning of a poem?
23. Quatrains are typically what mood?
24. A type of poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music.
25. A comparison of unlike things without using "like" or "as"
26. Communicates meanings beyond the literal meanings of words to compare things, emphasize ideas, or give emotional effect.
27. "He was a Romeo with the ladies." is an example of .....
28. Giving human traits to non-living things.
29. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. / What is right is not always popular; what is popular is not always right. / For we that live to please, must please to live. / Don't live to eat; eat to live. / What you see is not always what you get; what you get is not always what you see. / To the world, you may be someone; but to someone, you may be the world. / When the power of love overcomes the love of power" are examples of .....
30. The assignment of stress to an unstressed syllable, usually as a result of patterns of rhythm and rhyme, is known as
31. A name for a line of poetry written in meter ..... is named according to the number of feet per line. There are eight types:monometer (1 ft), dimeter (2 ft), trimeter (3 ft), tetrameter (4 ft), pentameter (5 ft), etc.
32. A line or verse (or group of lines) that is repeated at intervals throughout a poem
33. Words that have similar ending sounds to create rhythm in poetry.
34. A comparison implied by using an adverb such as like or as
35. Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.
36. Which of the following contains a metaphor?
37. A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
38. What figurative language device is usedin this sentence? It is so hot you could fry an eggon the sidewalk.
39. A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem; similar to a paragraph.
40. Giving human qualities to inanimate objects is
41. Lines that are grouped together and look like a paragraph that may be separated by a skipped line
42. Where should I eat lunch today?
43. Repeated words or phrases that help to create the rhythm of a poem
44. What is tone in literature?
45. What term refers to a type of rhyme in which the stressed vowel sounds are the same but the consonant sounds that follow them are different?
46. A group of lines within a poem
47. This is a poet's emotional attitude toward his or her subject
48. What is a conceit?
49. A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words into effect
50. A metaphor is a comparison between two ..... things.
51. Which poetry term refers to the writer of the poem?
52. The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break
53. Fleet feet sweep by sleeping Greeks.
54. A poem written in the shape of its subject matter
55. A rhyme scheme is a pattern of end rhymes.
56. Reader's feelings
57. Poems that have a specific order the writer has to follow
58. A fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of fixed length; used to create rhythm
59. A reference to a person, place, event, or work of literature
60. What type of figurative language is this statement:The wind sang a lovely song in Chloe's ear.
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