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Poetry Terms Quiz 60 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is a comparison of two things using like or as?
2. Words with the same ending sound
3. "When Adele walked through the store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her." What is being personified?
4. A humorous funny 5 line poem in which lines 1, 2, 5 rhyme is called ..... ?
5. A comparison between two things that are alike using "like" or "as"
6. Paddy's potatoes were prepared to perfection is an example of .....
7. A story's/poem's central idea or lesson
8. What is this an example of? "Go, go, go!"
9. Which describes a sonnet?
10. All lines in a poem must end with punctuation.
11. ..... is the repetition of sounds at the end of words/lines
12. A phrase whose literal meaning is different from the implied meaning; people understand the meaning because of its usage in the culture.
13. True or False:There were many allusions to the Bible in the play "The Crucible" .
14. A comparison of two things using "like, as than" or "resembles" (Ex. "She is as beautiful as a sunrise" or "As cold as Ice" or "I slept like a log") is .....
15. What is Narrative poem
16. A reference to another work of literature, person, or event
17. Expresses the writer's feelings and attitude about the subject
18. Poetry that lacks structure. It does not have a regular rhyme, rhythm, or stanza patterns
19. Several words in a row that all start with the same sound.
20. Assonance is the repetition of ..... sounds in line of poetry.
21. What do you call the appearance of the words on the page?
22. Rhymes only when spelled, not when pronounced (through/rough)
23. Words that imitate sounds.Example:Beep!
24. The rhyme scheme for the villanelle is ABC/ABC/ABC/ABC/ABC/ABBC
25. A 14-line poem, with one of a few rhyme schemes and in iambic pentameter
26. Contains a list of ideas, things, people, and places
27. The central idea, topic, or point of a story, essay, narrative, or poem.
28. Humorous, rhyming, five line poem
29. What is theme in poetry?
30. ..... is a comparison of two unlike things, but does not use the words "like" or "as" .
31. Words that do not mean exactly what they say
32. The poet's subjective views and attitude towards the reader and the subject.
33. Gives human traits and feelings to things that are not human-like animals or objects
34. "At midnight in the museum hall/ The fossils gathered for a ball"
35. Conversation between two fictitious speakers
36. What is the purpose of a line in a poem?
37. When a line breaks before completing a grammatical unit that can stand on its own
38. I know I'm going somewhere, and I can hardly wait, Somewhere's not the sort of placewhere someone should be late What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
39. What is the term for when two (or more) lines of poetry end with words that rhyme?
40. Compares 2 things by saying one is the other
41. The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to (such as boom or splat)
42. Imaginative comparison without using like or as
43. What is "rhythm?"
44. An illustrator draws a picture of a person intently watching a bird fly overhead. What is the bird representing?
45. A group of related items in a poem is called what?
46. This is a composition in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
47. The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.
48. A purposeful exaggeration for emphasis or humor
49. "Your adventure would have been a dusty death if I'd not saved you." ~~ MEDEA
50. Could be a word, a phrase, or even a sentence; a verse in a poem
51. Rhythmical pattern in a poem
52. When there is repetition of words with the same BEGINNING sounds, it is .....
53. How is a poem divided?
54. Is the following line a simile OR metaphor?"My mom has a heart of gold."
55. "The cold, wet rain came down in buckets and drenched my clothes." is an example of
56. Words spelled like they sound
57. Using the same word or phrase more than once for emphasis is .....
58. "An old silent pond ..... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again." What type of poem is shown above?
59. When abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions
60. Feeling of a literary work
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