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Poetry Terms Quiz 85 (60 MCQs)

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1. Open form means:
2. What vocabulary word means:Strong desire to achieve something usually requiring determination
3. A form of Japanese poetry made of short, unrhymed lines that talk about natural imagery
4. Close and ghost are an example of:So if I can't get close to youI'll settle for the ghost of you
5. A comparison between two unlike things
6. What is the following sentence an example of ..... She was so pretty my eyes popped out!
7. When the poet compares two things using "like" or "as." "My love is as boundless as the sea ..... " (Romeo and Juliet)
8. A word that is the opposite of another word. An example:Happy = Sad
9. A device in literature where an object represents an idea.
10. Has 19 lines and 2 repeated refrains
11. Comparison using "like" or "as"
12. Poets writing today ALWAYS write in free verse.
13. Giving human-like characteristics or human actions to objects, animals or ideas is called:
14. The person narrating the poem
15. It is the rhyming of words within one line of writing.
16. What is a verse?
17. When two or more words in the same line (or in close lines) that have similar consonant sounds (like game and gust)
18. Words with a similar ending sound are called .....
19. The musical quality created by unstressed and stressed syllables in a line of poetry
20. Going beyond the literal meaning of words in order to achieve an effect by using metaphor, smile, irony, personification, etc
21. Poems that break the rules and do not contain regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme.
22. Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words that DO NOT RHYME.
23. This type of poetry is very conversational-sounds like someone talking with you. Considered a more modern type of poetry.
24. Describes a non-human object as having human qualities or doing a human action
25. What term is described as intentional word choice?
26. One thing stands for the idea of another
27. Why would a poet use repetition?
28. An author's tone that creates a personal and reflective atmosphere, uses personal experiences and stories, uses personal pronouns (I, me, we), is very informal-like a letter or diary entry
29. Using "like" or "as" to compare two different things and show a common quality between them
30. Many poets use ..... to create mental scenes for readers.
31. An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
32. The writer's or speaker's attitude about the subject, audience, or character
33. Group of lines in poetry, separated by a line break (or space) (a paragraph in poetry)
34. This gives human qualities to a nonhuman thing. Tom's geometry book seemed to stare at him, whisper to him, and call his name.
35. Descriptive words and phrases that a writer uses to re-create sensory experiences ..... Show, don't tell!
36. A reference to a famous person, place, event, or piece of literature is called a(n) .....
37. What is the RHYME SCHEME of this poem? ..... Roses are red, We have the FLU.I can't smell anything And neither can YOU
38. What is the purpose of "I, Too, " by Langston Hughes?
39. The narrator of a poem (not always the poet)
40. To put something into your own words; short and concise.
41. Used instead of sentences; rows of words in a poem
42. Giving human qualities to a non-human noun. "The old car coughed and sputtered."
43. There is a direct statement of the similarity between two items, through theuse of such words as like or as
44. Wordplay that uses homonyms (two different words that are spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time. "A bicycle can't stand on its own because it's two-tired." Dad jokes are often punny.
45. Use of words that imitate sound
46. 'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roaris an example of .....
47. I feel blue today (blue = sad)
48. A literary device which reveals concealed or contradictory meanings
49. What is the following statement an example of? The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.
50. A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or entire line is restated
51. A humorous verse form of 5 lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
52. The pattern of a poem
53. A figure of speech that suggests a similarity between two different things (usually using "like" or "as")is called
54. Descriptive words that use the 5 senses to create a picture
55. Language and description that appeals to the five senses.
56. It is going to rain tomorrow.
57. The implied listener in a poem is the
58. Workers who move scenery or handle props in a theatrical production
59. By saying, "she is a walking dictionary" you would be using a .....
60. The arrangement of words; lines may or may not be sentences
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