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Poetry Terms Quiz 37 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the definition of a rhythm?
2. Choose the clue words that indicate compare and contrast.
3. Bonus:Verb Tense
4. What is the use of words to create pictures in your mind, appealing to the five senses?
5. The author's message or insight about a topic
6. A special kind of metaphor that gives human attributes to a nonhuman object, such as an animal, object, or concept
7. What is a "stanza containing four lines" ?
8. A single line of poetry is
9. ..... is a comparison of two things without using like or as.Example:The sun is a big yellow balloon.
10. Source of inspiration, a guiding genius; many classical poems begin with an invocation of the ( ..... ), where the poet calls on his ( ..... ) for inspiration
11. What do we call a comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as" ?
12. What type of figurative language is the following example?The tree laughed loudly at Miss Martin's horrible joke.
13. "5000 tongues applauded" is an example of:
14. A piece of writing where the writer uses imaginary rhythm and style to express feelings or ideas is called:
15. When a word, line, or stanza is repeared throughout a poem .....
16. A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas.
17. She was as tall as a giraffe
18. Words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of another and are not meant literally.
19. What type of figurative language is the following example?A tree represents life and growth.
20. A poem may be interpreted in multiple ways.
21. The order of words in a sentence or phrase that a poet uses is called:
22. Pattern of rhyming lines; named with letters of the alphabet (ex. ABAB)
23. What is this? What is this? What is this?
24. This is giving non-human things human qualities.
25. Giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects
26. A poem usually about nature
27. Person, place, thing or event used to represent something else
28. A group of words sectioned off together ..... like a paragraph in an essay
29. Which term refers to a line of poetry?
30. A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
31. Which word below is not an onomatopoeia?
32. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a word.
33. A complex poem about a serious subject
34. A-a-a-a-; a-b-a-b; a-b-b-a; a-a-b-a; etc.
35. Is the repetition of consonant sounds at thebeginnings of words
36. Which one is NOT an example of a metaphor?
37. Read the following line: "Warm tears rolled down my cheeks." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal?
38. Rhyme that occurs on the end of the line
39. The central or main idea of the poem is .....
40. A single line in poetry.
41. A title given to an outstanding U.S. poet by the Library of Congress, usually for one or two years
42. ..... is the emotional atmosphere of a piece of writing.
43. A ..... poem is in the shape of its topic.
44. Sensory Language
45. A group of words in a row.
46. A literary work written in verse format
47. A comparison of two things using like or as
48. Love is a tornado.
49. What is end rhyme?
50. A literary genre characterized by rhythmical patterns of language
51. Which term means comparing two unlike things using like or as?
52. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ..... of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
53. Narrative poems are poems that
54. A regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables that sets the overall rhythm of certain poems; made up of groupings called "feet"
55. A kind of poem that follows a set of rules, such as a limerick, haiku, or sonnet, is .....
56. Using the same sound or letter at the beginning of a word
57. The moon winked at me through the clouds as if to say I should venture forward.' What object is being personified in the sentence?
58. A comparison of two different things, using either "as" or "like"
59. This is a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
60. Someone who is ..... usually works hard to succeed.
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