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Poetry Terms Quiz 86 (60 MCQs)

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1. Referring to someone's house as a "shack" would have a ..... connotation.
2. A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming.
3. Visually descriptive
4. Four-line stanzas, that echo the simple rhythms of church hymns.
5. A point in the poem when it's meaning or tone turns in a new, significant way
6. The baby was like an octopus, pulling all the socks off the rack at the store. What is the meaning of the simile above?
7. What figurative language gives human qualities or traits to an animal or object?
8. "Her heart is like gold, " is an example of what?
9. To which of the five senses does the following sentence or phrase appeal? As I walked through the scary house, I felt something hairy crawling up my arm.
10. A words that imitates the sound it represents
11. What is the definition of anaphora?
12. A sheriff being the "good" character is an example of an .....
13. Which word means a group of four lines of verse (poetry)?
14. All free verse poems rhyme
15. What is the correct term for the following definition? Parts of a sentence or whole sentences that are grammatically similar, often repeating a specific word, phrase, or idea.
16. ..... is the writer's unique style of expression.
17. A literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of figurative language
18. The pattern of end rhyme between lines of a poem or song.
19. Six-line unit in a poem
20. Mark was a beast on the football field destroying anyone who came in his path. Which type of figurative language is used in the line above?
21. The design of a poem; the means by which a literary work expresses its content
22. "It is is easy as cake" is a .....
23. How many lines does a couplet have?
24. A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.
25. This line of poetry has an example of?Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so;
26. Repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem
27. A short poem expressing the internal and emotional thoughts of a single speaker. They are usually an expression of the poet's feelings about a person, an object, event or idea. They originated as songs and retain their melodic patterns through various forms or rhythm and rhyme.
28. Set of words or phrases that are repeated regularly in a poem or song
29. The division of a poem (The "paragraphs" of poetry).
30. How is tone created
31. The way a poem flows from one idea to the next
32. A word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated at times throughout a poem or song
33. The traffic noises argued long into the night and finally Carl went to sleep.
34. This type of writing is typically reserved for expressing something special in an artistic way. Ideas are contained in lines that may or may not be sentences. Lines are arranged in stanzas.
35. Which of these is alliteration?
36. Which type of figurative langauge compares two things without using like or as?
37. A stronger comparison saying that something IS something rather than just LIKE it
38. Love is an intense feeling of deep affection.
39. Which term refers to the purposeful repetition of a phrase, verse, or stanza?
40. Which word group could result in consonance?
41. TWO lines that rhyme.
42. This kind of poem tells a story and may become a folk song.
43. Can Carrie count the crying canaries correctly?
44. What is the definition of the term:simile?
45. A poem of fourteen lines using s wide range of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. The English form usually ends with a couplet
46. What is the rhyme scheme? "I dream of an ocean blueOne to sail on fast and trueI dream of an ocean clear as iceTo follow my dreams would be oh no so nice"
47. What is it called when there is a repetition of CONSONANT sounds in nearby words?
48. There's a guy in a tux and he stands in the corner, / Feedin' the jukebox his dimes.
49. "as soon as I heard the miau miau I tried to find where it was comming from ..... "is an example of
50. A couplet consist of .....
51. How many lines is an Octave?
52. Lacks strict structure; has no regular meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza pattern
53. "Love is like fire" is an example of which form of figurative language?
54. Shorter in length than a ballad; can sing or chant; praises a person, event, or thing
55. Which two terms help out poets when making their poems fit a rhyme scheme without sacrificing their depth of meaning?
56. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem, creating a musical quality
57. A poem that doesn't follow a specific form, meter, or rhyme scheme, yet still conveys powerful feelings and ideas
58. When sounds of words are similar. Often, the end words have this in common.
59. A kind of metaphor in which human qualities are given to something that is not human
60. The atmosphere of a literary piece, or how the reader feels about it
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