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Poetry Terms Quiz 6 (60 MCQs)

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1. Onomatopoeia is:
2. An implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another
3. A grouping of two or more lines of a poem
4. The drive to Disney World will last forever if I have to be stuck in the backseat with my pesky little sister.
5. "The raindrops danced on the tabletop." The kind of figurative language used here is .....
6. Poetry without rhyme or meter
7. The ideas, feelings, and associations that a word brings to mind.
8. An allusion is .....
9. When two or more words have the same sound at the ends of lines is:
10. A poem paragraph consisting of lines.
11. The time is out of joint, O cursed spite That ever I was born to set it right!
12. "My cell phone screamed at me from across the room."Giving human characteristics to something that is non-human is called
13. Narrative poetry
14. Harsh, jarring sounds, words with k's, g's, ch's, t's, p's, and other gutturals and explosives
15. A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically
16. A line of poetry MUST be a complete sentence.
17. Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different. (I.E. A perfect rhyme) ("dog and hog"; "red and dead" . etc.)
18. References that trigger memories of something you may have heard, seen, smelled, etc .....
19. When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same .....
20. Referring metaphorically to persons, places, or things from history or previous literature
21. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
22. ..... a comparison of two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as" .
23. The pattern of rhyming lines in a poem
24. An example of the term "repetition" is .....
25. An inference is .....
26. A comparison of two different things or ideas using the words "like" or "as"
27. What is the definition of alliteration?
28. The rhythmic pattern of a poem is .....
29. Someone who creates a play, author of a play.
30. The narrator or the voice of the poem.
31. The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard(Robert Frost, "Out, Out" )
32. A word that imitates the sound it represents
33. Poetry with no regular meter or rhyme
34. How a poem looks on a page
35. A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds
36. Words that are used for their connection to the sense of hearing.
37. A word used to imitate the sound of things
38. Comparing two things WITHOUT using LIKE or AS is called
39. The attitude the poem's narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character
40. A reference to a well-known person, event or place, can be from history
41. Sometimes we have to "read between the lines." Authors don't always tell us everything. We need to use textual evidence and prior knowledge to understand the text better.
42. A jolly Irish fellow named Hugh was arrested for saying "Look, Snoo!" "What's snoo?" they would cry, and he'd always reply, "Oh nothing much, what's snoo with you?" If I rearranged these sentences into 5 lines of poetry, I created a .....
43. A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
44. An opposition or contrast of ideas
45. Words that rhyme consecutively or sequentially at the end of each line.
46. The voice that "talks" to the reader
47. The most common stanza used in poetry, a poem or stanza of four lines
48. This type of poem is more picture than poem ..... poems are pictures in words.
49. Which of these is NOT an example of slant rhyme?
50. Put your coat on before you catch a cold!
51. What is denotation?
52. Used to add impact or emphasis to a piece of writing
53. Which of these quotes features a simile?
54. The phrase below is an example of which type of figurative langauge?The markers tattooed an image of Kobe on my notebook.
55. Any writing that is not poetry
56. Sixteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets (set of three lines) and one quatrain (set of four lines). They use the rhyme scheme of ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABAA
57. What is the term for the use of words to create a picture in the reader's mind?
58. What is a rhyme scheme?
59. A poem that is shaped like a diamond, and the words describe opposite ideas.
60. Figurative language used to appeal to the five senses and create an image in the reader's mind is known as "imagery" .
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