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Poetry Terms Quiz 68 (60 MCQs)

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1. Repeated vowel sounds in a line of poetry is called .....
2. Allthe meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to somewords, in addition to their literal dictionary definition.
3. A metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables followed by an unstressed one ( / / U )
4. A pattern of stressed syllables, or words that sound the same are called .....
5. A poem that expresses personal thoughts and feelings of a speaker; can be set to music
6. What is the following an example of? The sun smiled down on me as I walked home from school.
7. A poem that has five lines and a total of 22 syllables, distributed in a specific 2-4-6-8-2 pattern is called a .....
8. A sonnets consists of how many lines?
9. A group of lines in a poem; analogous to a paragraph in prose writing.
10. Exclamation; character speaks directly to someone who is not present, dead, or inanimate (object)
11. I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. What is the rhyme scheme?
12. The way a word feels (societal feeling)
13. What is a poem that has no regular pattern or rhyme or rhythm called?
14. The sunflowers nodded in the wind.
15. Gives human traits to something that is not living
16. In poetry, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning. This is also called a run-on line
17. What is the tone? "I come here with my injuryTo see your injury.From here on, I fight against what I canAnd what I can't."
18. A poet writes with a certain attitude or tone and makes the reader sense a certain feeling or .....
19. What is similar to the chorus of a song (the part repeated)?
20. Any person, place, or thing which has meaning in itself but which is made to stand for something else.
21. ..... is a person who write poetry.
22. Giving human or living qualities to nonhuman or nonliving things
23. The use of words and phrases that convey how things look, feel, smell, sound and taste.
24. On the beautiful summer night, the trees danced in the breeze is an example of .....
25. The pattern of rhyming in a poem; usually identified by assigning letters to each line (ABAA, or ABAB)
26. Two qualities that are normally considered impossible to exist together:
27. Personification is when
28. A ..... is "a word written the same way as another word but having a different meaning" .
29. A ..... is a question, usually humorous, to be solved.
30. A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.
31. An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning is
32. What is the definition for synecdoche?
33. When the intended meaning of a statement differs from the apparent meaning
34. Word choice and phrasing in any written or spoken text
35. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common. Does not contain the words like or as.
36. A figure of speech wherein a part of a thing is employed to suggest the whole or a layer concept is used to suggest something specific
37. Poetry that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling a story. These poems are usually short and imply (as opposed to stating) a strong emotion or idea.
38. Rhyming of two words within the same line of poetry
39. Definition:emotions or feelings the reader feels
40. Facebook "Friends" Are Like Crayons Judy Reynolds had been looking forward to catching up with her old friends when she first signed up for a Facebook account, but she was ultimately disappointed by the experience. "Facebook friends are like crayons, " Reynolds said after deactivating her account. "They're exciting when they're new, but they can get dull very quickly." Ms. Reynolds claims to have no interest in looking at pictures of what people had for dinner, and she has better things to do than to respond to invitations to play online games. What type of figurative language is used?
41. A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
42. Two lines of poetry that usually rhyme
43. The overlapping or mixing of opposite or different situations, characters, settings, moods, or points of view in order to clarify meaning, purpose, or character, or to heighten certain moods, especially humour, horror, and suspense
44. A lyric poem that is fourteen lines long and usually has a particular type of meter
45. What uses rhyming words at the end of two lines next to each other?
46. The rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables
47. It is a poem for the dead.
48. What is the meaning of mood in poetry?
49. The way you feel when you read a text
50. A combination of contradictory words or phrases continued in a single expression.
51. I am as hungry as a bear!
52. A style of Poetry that follows no rules
53. Words that have the same end sounds
54. A poem's narrator
55. A type of writing that uses sentences and paragraphs to express ideas
56. Which of these is NOT an example of true rhyme?
57. Repetition of sound at the ends of words
58. The words or subject of a piece of writing
59. One the second page (p. 553), there's a photograph of .....
60. The beat, sound, and feel of a poem
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