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Poetry Terms Quiz 55 (60 MCQs)

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1. In the poem, "Poetry Means the World to Me", Tony Medina writes "They should be used used used to say what you like or don't like what you see think or feel ..... ". Which device does Medina use?
2. The feelings evoked in the reader because of the author's use of diction and imagery
3. Which is true about poetry?
4. The central idea, topic, or point of a story, essay, or narrative
5. Compare using like or as
6. A comparison that does not use the words like or as
7. Words that are used to imitate sounds. Words sound like the noises they describe
8. The beauty of thought and language is called
9. Rhymes as ABAB CDCD EFEF
10. What is the definition of a mood?
11. The beat that helps shape a poem's meaning and structure.
12. Extravagant exaggeration used for humor or effect
13. When we make an ..... we read a poem and take out the meaning.
14. He didn't want to eat .....
15. How the poem makes the reader feel.
16. A poem that tells a story is called a-
17. A group of words arranged in a row. When using as evidence in an essay, these are broken by slashes.
18. A type of poem where one or more of the characters speak. The "speakers" is someone other than the poet.
19. Used by poets to convey a poem's meaning and mood
20. What is the correct definition of rhyme?
21. A section of a play where a specific action takes place is called .....
22. Words that appeal to the senses (see, touch, feel, hear, sounds, taste, smell)
23. "My flowers were begging for water on the hot summer day" is an example of:
24. A poem narrating a story in short stanzas with a rhyme scheme is a?
25. A group of related lines in a poem
26. A poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable
27. Which of the following is a lament for the dead?
28. " A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open" .-Frank Zappa
29. Words and phrases that do not have their normal, everyday meaning. Includes similes, metaphors, personification, etc.
30. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is a tongue twister resulting from .....
31. Use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning
32. Ways of using words for the musical sound qualities they create-creates rhythm, mood, and meaning
33. She smiled a smile as bright as the sun.
34. The ideas and feelings that a word brings to mind
35. Using like or as to compare two things
36. The repetition of consonant sounds in the beginnings of word.
37. Basic unit of a poem
38. Narrative poetry is like narrative writing. Both tell a
39. A folk ballad is a oral tradition.
40. A stanza or poem with 4 lines, usually with alternate rhymes
41. Words that have the same or similar ending sounds.
42. A form of lyric poetry; has 14 lines and 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
43. The speaker in the poem
44. Occurs when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond.Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art ..... "Bright Star" by John Keats
45. A humorous, rhyming, 5-line poem with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme
46. A poem's paragraphs are called .....
47. Repetition of an initial word in successive lines of poetry.
48. A poem that expresses the personal thought and feelings of a speaker.
49. A poem with no regular rhythm or rhyme
50. The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words (dark, dastardly deeds)
51. Pam was skinny enough to jump through a keyhole.
52. When the SOUND of a word imitates its meaning.
53. A comparison between two dissimilar things that is stated as fact
54. Meter, as defined in poetry, is:
55. What is the definition of repetition?
56. Poem with a regular pattern of meter or rhyme (AKA open form)
57. The patterns of rhymes in a poem
58. A form of poetry that tells a story and has more feelings
59. The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (ex. Sizzle, pow).
60. The repetition of a sound at the beginning of a series of words
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