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Poetry Terms Quiz 49 (60 MCQs)

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1. A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to emphasize its significance.
2. Poetry's version of a paragraph is called a/an
3. What is the below example known as "I saw the man walking fora long time and he didn't stopfor many years."
4. What is the comparison of two things using the words 'like' or 'as' called?
5. The rhyming of two words at the end of two lines in a poem
6. A group of lines in a poem, usually consisting of four or more lines.
7. Define a sonnet and its structure.
8. This type of poetry consists of two rhyming lines together. It can be one pair of lines, or a longer poem made of many rhyming pairs.
9. What is the definition of meter?
10. What is the correct term for the following definition? The repetition of initial consonant sounds:Feramisco's funny family photos.
11. Which type of poem originated in Japan?
12. My house is a friend who protects me. The moon played hide and seek with the clouds. The approaching car's headlights winked at me are examples of .....
13. Reflects upon a single sentiment, with a clarification or "turn" of thought in its concluding lines.
14. What term refers to a type of metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable?
15. The idea or feeling that people associate with a word; a word's secondary meaning.
16. Relates a story in verse or a poem that tells a story The word is .....
17. A direct comparison of two unlike things that does not use like or as (x=y) is called
18. What is a line in a poem?
19. Songlike poetry that uses alot of figurative language. Many time it rhymes.
20. Direct comparison often using "is" or "was"
21. They are paragraphs for a poem, or verses for a song .....
22. Which is the correct defintion of stanza?
23. Joe does know how the song should go.
24. The Culture's Created meaning for a word
25. What is METER in poetry?
26. Which of the following is NOT a prose?
27. What is the following statement an example of? Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly
28. What do you call a run on line of poetry that carries on to the next line of a poem
29. "I am so hungry I could eat a horse!"is an example of .....
30. The repetition of the same sounds at the end of a word
31. Metaphors, similes, hyperboles, idioms, and personification are all types of .....
32. Language that is not meant to be taken literally.
33. Expresses the feelings of a single speaker, using melodic language, imagery, rhythm, and sound devices to express emotions
34. All poems have to rhyme.
35. Types of Stanzas:A three-line stanza is .....
36. Word choice and usually used to describe the level of formality that a speaker uses:
37. Although the box was light as a feather, Jermey refused to carry it.
38. Giving human characteristics to things that aren't human
39. What is "language that appeals to the five senses" ?
40. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of following or closely connected words.
41. If the poem's ending words rhyme .....
42. A poem that doesn't rhyme, but it uses iambic pentameter
43. Which is Personification
44. The moon sang me a lullaby
45. A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythological, or literary person, place, event, or work is called .....
46. A poem that has no rules, rhythm or rhyme is called a-
47. Form poetry is .....
48. Poetry in lines of irregular length, usually unrhymed.
49. This is an example of:The Gatorade quenched my thirst after I sprinted around the track with the sun beating down.
50. Rhythmic patterns built on the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
51. What is a stanza break?
52. A ..... is the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line.
53. Generally a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
54. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables.
55. Which of these is a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme? (William Shakespeare is known for writing 154 of these during his life.)
56. Features of texts; they vary from one form of written text to another
57. The voice that narrates (tells) the poem (not always the author)
58. Which choice is an example of an apostrophe?
59. Break a leg when you go on stage.
60. Author's word choice
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