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Poetry Terms Quiz 36 (60 MCQs)

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1. A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though.
2. Having a feeling of rancor toward someone means you
3. A group of lines placed together in a poem is a .....
4. Boom, buzz, pow, bang
5. An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference to literature, music, art, pop culture, the news, etc.
6. When rhyming words come at the ends of the lines. The most common type of poetic rhyme.
7. The pattern of end rhymes, written out in letters (AABB)
8. "Plunk" is an example of what?
9. A writer's or speaker's choice of words and way of arranging the words in sentences
10. One thing that stands for something else is referred to as
11. Which word decribes a technique used by writers where a thing which ordinarily is known for one thing actually represents something completely different such as DIckinson's setting sun and Frost's two roads?
12. A section at the end of a book that serves as a comment or a conclusion to what has happened
13. True or false:every sonnet must contain exactly fourteen lines
14. A ..... in a poem is like a sentence in a paragraph.
15. Near rhyme in which the concluding consonant sounds are identical but not the vowels. Example:sun/noon, should/food, slim/ham.
16. The "speaker" in poetry refers to
17. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of 2 or more words.
18. Rhyme scheme involves the repetition of similar sounds at the ..... of lines of poetry.
19. Which figurative language is this an example of:My father told me that life is a journey.
20. Helps the reader picture ordinary things in new ways. Is not literally true.
21. The use of parts of a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter Adds balance and rhythm "Easy come, easy go."
22. What is the pattern of rhymes in a poem called?
23. Uses like or as to compare two things
24. Diction is the literary term that means
25. The crazy car is colorful.
26. Define juxtaposition
27. A quatrain is a group of how many lines?
28. An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or humor
29. A passage repeated at regular intervals with variations, usually in a poem or song
30. Repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words.
31. What type of rhyme do we see in this poem?"I take it you already know/Of tough and bough and cough and dough?/Others may stumble, but not you/On hiccough, thorough, lough and through/"
32. Language that appeals to the senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell).
33. What is the feeling the audience gets from reading a poem?
34. In a poem, what do you call the appearance of the words on the page?
35. What does a snake symbolize?
36. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables measured in feet
37. A poem with NO pattern or rhyming words
38. Choose the sentence that is literal
39. This is another name for the Shakespearean sonnet.
40. How the reader or listener feels when reading or listening to a text
41. Repetition of beginning consonant sounds
42. If you feel calm and collected after reading a poem, this would describe .....
43. They fought like cats and dogs.
44. Repeated grouping of two or more lines in a poem that often share a pattern of rhythm and rhyme
45. "Wow, thanks for expensive gift ..... let's see:did it come with a Fun Meal or the Burger Kingequivalent?" is an example of:
46. The attitude of the writer towards a subject or audience.
47. Narrative poems .....
48. What is does analogies mean?
49. A poem with 3 lines with 5 syllables, then 7 syllables, then 5 syllables is called a .....
50. What is the opposite of hyperbole?
51. The emotional, psychological or social overtones of a word; its implications and associationsapart from its literal meaning.
52. Four-line stanza
53. Identify the Simile below .....
54. The flor of the beat in a poem
55. Grammatical structures of sentences and phrases
56. A comparison between two things (WITHOUT using "like" or "as" ); saying one thing IS another
57. The pattern of beats or stresses in a poem
58. We can feel and understand this part of poetry in songs and dance. Pattern of strong and weak stresses on words to give
59. A type of poetry that exhibits poetic language but does not follow fixed patterns
60. Describes one things as if it were something else.
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