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Poetry Terms Quiz 64 (60 MCQs)

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1. Two rhyming lines
2. The following is an example of which sound device?"Peter piper picked pickled peppers or sally sold sea shells by the seashore"
3. A line break is .....
4. If two words are close, but they don't rhyme exactly, we call that ..... rhyme.
5. A very short and humorous or nonsensical poem with five lines and an AABBA rhyme scheme
6. What is the message that the poet is communicating to the audience, that can be applied to anyone's life?
7. A word that has the same ending sound as another word is a .....
8. A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
9. A figure of speech that gives human-like characteristics to a nonhuman object
10. Read the following line: "I bought a sour pickle and a bag of salty chips." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal?
11. When a writer compares one thing to another.
12. The use of words to imitate sounds
13. Lines of a poem that are separated into groups
14. A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something else.
15. The vantage point from which a narrative is told The first person, third person (limited or omniscient)
16. Poetic form reforms to a poem's
17. A poem that uses the letters in a topic word to begin each line
18. A group of lines in poetry, typically more than two, that form the basic unit of the poem.
19. A poem where the first letter of each line form a word or phrase when read together.
20. Gives human traits and feelings to things that are not human
21. What is the attitude of the author toward a subject or an audience?
22. An exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect
23. A pattern of lines in a poem that are separated from other groups of lines is called a .....
24. The writer's attitude towards his or her subject.
25. Lines 1 & 4 rhyme, and lines 2 & 3 rhyme
26. A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
27. The beat of a poem or song, created by stressed and unstressed syllables
28. What is the correct term for the following definition? Compares unlikely things to help readers see them in a new way/carries a metaphor through the entire poem or, at least, a long part of it.
29. Which of the following contains a PUN?
30. Is a form of narrative verse that can be either poetic or musical. It typically follows a pattern of rhymed quatrains
31. Two words that rhyme at the end of lines
32. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem below? The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day.
33. When whole words or phrases repeate
34. What is the definition of paradox?
35. Two opposites are used to create an effect Usually an adjective/verb "Organized chaos" "Jumbo Shrimp"
36. Lines grouped together in poetry
37. The way the reader feels while reading a poem
38. The point where a line of poetry ends. Poets use these strategically to put emphasis on certain words.
39. Two lines that come right after one another that have the same end rhyme different from the rest of the poem.
40. What is the term for the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem?
41. A comparison of two different things using "like" or "as" is called
42. What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence? As the storm blew in, the trees danced in the wind.
43. Language that suggests how someone or something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes; helps create a mental picture in your mind as your read
44. Definition:words or the use of words with sounds that imitate the meaning of what they are describing ex) "boom" or "splash"
45. A three line Japanese form that describes something in nature
46. A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
47. What word means a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
48. One who writes poetry
49. Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.
50. A very old form of poetry which originated in Japan is called a ..... The poem is only three lines long and it does not rhyme. The syllables are in a pattern of 5-7-5 for each line.
51. Which vocabulary word is being defined? The use of words that imitate sound?
52. Pattern of end rhymes in a poem or stanza
53. A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
54. All the meanings, associations or emotions that are attached to a word
55. Which term means using a part to refer to the whole or using the material to refer to the object?
56. The beat or flow of a poem
57. Nonsense words; specifically used for an occupation
58. A stanza made up of four lines is a .....
59. Which word is defined as "the message about life or human nature the author shares" ?
60. A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only, as in dry and died or grown and moon. Also known as half rhyme, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, and slant rhyme.
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