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Poetry Terms Quiz 74 (60 MCQs)

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1. The associated meaning of a word-positive or negative. Images and thoughts evoked from a word by the reader.
2. Refrain is when a poem repeats entire lines or more several times throughout.Like the chorus of a song
3. Form of literary device used in poetry, creates imagery for the reader.
4. What does the following poem symbolize? An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
5. The feeling the poet creates/how the reader feels is .....
6. A genre of literature that expresses feelings, ideas, or tells a story in a specific form-using lines and stanzas
7. A stanza of four lines that has a regular rhyming pattern
8. Define "rhyme."
9. Words or phrases that are repeated
10. Give a nonhuman object human characteristics.
11. "The musical quality created by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry" is called .....
12. A poem form that does not have a regular pattern of rhythm and may not rhyme, may use unconventional punctuation, spelling, and grammar
13. An extended metaphor with complex logic or a startling comparison-takes places over an entire passage or poem
14. The refrain usually helps to emphasize the poem's .....
15. The message of the poem
16. Words that begin with the same sound are placed close together
17. Poet's message, and how is he or she communicating feelings
18. A comparison, usually something unfamiliar with something familiar.
19. A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as (saying one things IS another).
20. What type of poetry is this the definition for?Poetry with neither regular meter nor rhyme scheme.
21. Giving human characteristics to objects.
22. Which poetic term is defined as "a figurative language-comparing one thing to another" ?
23. Which element of poetry is highlighted in this poem? "You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars."
24. Which word means poems do not rhyme and sound like normal speech?
25. The repetition of the same beginning sound, usually a consonant, in a phrase or line of poetry (She sells seashells by the seashore)
26. In poetry, what is ALLITERATION?
27. What kind of figurative language is this?Over the winter glaciers, I see the summer glow.
28. Worn-out expressions, overused comparisons
29. Independent and not controlled by outside forces
30. What vocab word from this week is also in the definition of alliteration?
31. The writer's choice of words
32. When a writer uses an extreme exaggeration, he or she is writing a(n) .....
33. What vocabulary word means:Unwilling, Hesitant
34. The ..... is the voice of the poem
35. Tools that writers use to create images, or "paint pictures, " in the mind of the reader
36. The return of a word, phrase, or sentence for effect
37. ..... is a group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem
38. Poetry is similar to prose because .....
39. An expression that has been overused and has lost its original meaning "Time heals all wounds"
40. A group of lines in a poem. Like a paragraph in a story
41. The use of language to create beautiful or forceful pictures in the reader's mind.
42. A rhyme in which two words are alike in some sounds, but do not exactly rhyme
43. A comparison of two things where one things is said to BE the other
44. The use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning, such as emotional associations, is .....
45. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the word like or as.
46. Which word is defined as "the actual meaning of a word or phrase" ?
47. A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing
48. What term refers to a type of rhyme in which the words have the same spelling but different sounds and meanings?
49. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words near each other.
50. The narrative voice in a poem (such as a sonnet or lyric) which tells of their feelings, experiences, or situation.
51. What is the definition of the term:Alliteration?
52. Using a concrete object or phrase to represent a different abstract idea is called .....
53. Does this sentence show personification? The party died soon after we left.
54. The feeling of a reader when reading a text
55. A humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme. Most have three strong stresses in lines 1, 2, and 5 and two strong stresses in lines 3 and 4.
56. Several lines grouped together in a poem
57. Do you like blue?
58. A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in "Man proposes; God disposes."
59. A word that is formed by the sound associated with it
60. A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space, is called a .....
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