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Poetry Terms Quiz 65 (60 MCQs)

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1. If two words ALMOST rhyme, it is called .....
2. Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Which statement best describes the theme of this poem?
3. What the speaker feels about the subject The word is .....
4. The writer of a poem is called ..... /El escritor de un poema se llama .....
5. This is the use of rhyming words within a line.
6. A set or group of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes
7. I can't go to the game tonight due to the tons of homework my teacher assigned.
8. A group of lines together in a poem, like sentences in a paragraph.
9. A rose is a ..... of love.
10. Which of the following is an example of a symbol in poetry?
11. Words that appeal to the sight, hearing, smell, taste, and/or touch
12. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words
13. The appearance of words, capital letters, lines, and stanzas on the page
14. Which should you do first when SIFTing/analyzing a poem?
15. What are two rhyming lines normally called?
16. The Class of 2022 is one of the smallest in the last 20 years. How many students?
17. The use of one object or idea to represent something else
18. A person, place, or object that represents something beyond itself.
19. ..... is the repetition of a final stressed vowel and succeeding sounds in two or more words.
20. Rhyming scheme where 1st and 4th lines rhyme and 2nd and 3rd lines rhyme; ABBA
21. Poetry that disregards (doesn't follow) the rules of rhyme scheme and rhythm
22. A discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
23. A situation or statement in which the actual outcome or meaning is opposite to what was expected.
24. Poetry written without a recurring rhythm, rhyme or meter is called:
25. What is a persona in poetry?
26. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using words such as "like" or "as"
27. What is the rhyme scheme for a limerick?
28. The person who is telling/delivering the poem; like the narrator (NOT the same as the poet/author)
29. AA BB AA CC is an example of
30. Use of a sound, word or phrase more than once
31. Buzz, Moo, Hiss, Boo
32. The use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss, " "buzz, " "slam, " and "boom."
33. What is a cinquain poem?
34. "silken, sad, uncertain, rustling ..... "
35. There are 14 lines in both Shakespearean and Italian Sonnets
36. The repetition of sounds in words that appear close to each other in a poem.
37. This sentence appeals to which sense:The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward.
38. ..... is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words.
39. ..... are comparisons using "like" or "as" . For example:The day was as cold as a wet blanket.
40. This school is an asylum.
41. The literary device which uses words that imitate the sound they are naming is known as .....
42. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
43. A poem's beauty created through its construction, words, and message is its:
44. Which of the following is NOT a true statement about allusions?
45. A group of lines forming a unit in poetry
46. What is the regular pattern of rhyming words? Example:AABBCCDD
47. Alliteration, rhyme, and refrain are all forms of:
48. A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a division of a poem that is often referred to as a "paragraph of poetry"
49. What poetic device is this an example of?"You have to stop getting out of bed like you're an oil spill"
50. Poetry that has no regular rhythm, meter, rhyme, or structure, and mimics regular speech is called .....
51. Structure means.....
52. What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?It took me 100 years to finish my homework last night.
53. "Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower" is an example of .....
54. Her mind is like a dictionary is an example of a ..... ?
55. Repeating sounds, vowels OR consonants, that are in the BEGINNING of neighboring words.Example:Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper
56. A metaphor carried throughout the text
57. Pattern of rhymes found at the end of each line of poetry
58. Definition:a poem that is written in the physical shape of the subject.
59. Poems that have a pattern of the same sounds at the end of each line (such as ABAB CDCD) have a .....
60. A short but definite pause within a line of poetry. It is used to create or build tension or suspense
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