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Poetry Terms Quiz 67 (60 MCQs)

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1. An idea about life that emerges from a poem
2. True or False:Free Verse MUST have a rhyme scheme
3. Bright black-eyed creature, brushed with brown.(Robert Frost, "To a Moth Seen in Winter" )
4. A pause in a line that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than meter, usually in the middle of a line
5. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thingof a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
6. What is the importance of sound devices in poetry?
7. A song or songlike poem that tells a story mostly dealing with adventure or romance
8. A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song
9. The rose, in "A Rose from Concrete" represents
10. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of a poem is called the
11. The pen is mightier than the sword.
12. The repetition of initial first letter
13. The defined rhyme and meter of a poem
14. A tercet is what kind of poem?
15. The repetition of vowel sounds in a line or series of lines of poetry.
16. What poetic device is used in the following example?"He was distorting the truth so much, I was surprised that his nose did not start growing."
17. Poetry that follows no rules
18. Which phrase has a NEGATIVE (-) connotation?
19. What gives a character, place, or object a deeper meaning? Example:The color white represents purity.
20. How many stanzas are there? A blue day A blue jay And a good beginning. One crow, Melting snow-Spring's winning! By Eleanor Farjeon
21. A poem in which a word or phrase is spelled vertically using the first letter of each line
22. What is a "elegy" ?
23. Refers to repeated sounds, words, phrases, lines used for emphasis
24. A kind of figurative language in which an animal, object, or idea is given human qualities.
25. The person that narrates the poem
26. Creative language or figures of speech used in poetry or prose
27. The pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem or song
28. A poem that lacks the line breaks traditionally associated with poetry (a poem written in sentences and paragraphs)
29. A book of poems by different poets
30. Using words with the same beginning sound to highlight key words, make a poem memorable, or create a feeling or moodis called
31. Words that have the same end sound, but are not spelled the same at the end of the words.
32. A poem with fixed rules made up of rhythm and/or rhyme scheme is .....
33. This signals one stanza has ended and a new one is beginning.
34. The feeling the poet is trying to convey
35. A type of poem that tells a story.
36. The beat created by the stressed and unstressed syllables in words
37. Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of two or more clauses or lines.
38. A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity.
39. The lesson or moral of the story or poem that relates to life.
40. Tanya never stops talking.
41. The process of marking meter is .....
42. The runner is a cheetah.
43. What is the definition of the term:Symbol?
44. What is "a 17-syllable, delicate unrhymed Japanese verse, usually about nature" ?
45. The literary term for a poem ostensibly about farming and the practical aspects of rustic life is
46. "Blazing in gold and quenching in purple, "
47. A way to divide sections of lines in a poem. Similar to a paragraph in prose.
48. The way an author writes. An author's choice of words, figurative language, rhyme, rhythm, or repetition.
49. Making a non-human object have human qualities is called ..... For example:The river tripped and skipped over the rocks on its way to the ocean.
50. "My lips are dumb" is an example of:
51. Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
52. What is the extended metaphor?
53. This is like a paragraph for a poem
54. What is the usual rhyme scheme used in Dickinson's poerty?
55. Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
56. Authoritative works of a writer & an accepted list of works perceived to represent cultural, ideological, historical etc. grouping
57. What is NOT in a Haiku poem?
58. A dove representing the idea of peace is using .....
59. "O my love is like a red, red, rose"This line is an example of everything except:
60. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas that tells a story and is meant to be sung.
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