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Poetry Terms Quiz 90 (60 MCQs)

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1. Pick the type of Rhyme: "Once upon a midnight dreary, whille I pondered weak and weary / ..... While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping" ~~ "The Raven" by E A Poe
2. Descriptive words making one imagine how something looks, feels, smells, touches, and tastes.
3. Another word for "verse" is .....
4. A rhyming sound that is not exactex. "We Wear the Mask" subtleties rhymes with lies
5. A repeated rhythm pattern where the first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed.
6. Poems are made up of series of lines, which are usually divided into ..... The end of one line and beginning of another is referred to as a .....
7. "What I need:all dead, all dead, all dead"
8. If a line has two feet, it's .....
9. What is a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)?
10. What is it called when a line of verse with 5 metrical feet, each consisting a unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable?
11. The repetition of identical sounds in the last syllables of words.
12. Which poetic element is a reference to a popular person, place, story, or thing?
13. "The tea cup clinked and clanged as I put it down on the plate" is an example of:
14. Musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables
15. A comparison of two nouns saying that one thing is another
16. The ice sculptor's hands fluttered like hummingbird wings.
17. "A woman ..... can do no good but in childbirth. But a woman can do evil. She can do evil." ~~ MEDEA
18. Scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to "flash" backward and tell what happened at an earlier time
19. Giving human qualities and traits to non-human object is .....
20. The piano sang a mournful song.
21. The pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Pairs of rhyming words get labeled with the same letter of the alphabet.
22. A concrete poem is written in .....
23. A poem written in honor of someone who had died
24. Lines of poetry arranged in groups
25. How a say a word (stressed and unstressed). Is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
26. A question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer
27. This term means the representation through language of sense experience
28. "Less is more" is an example of what poetic device?
29. "I'm so hungry I could eat a whole cow" is an example of what type of figurative language?
30. A type of figurative language that shows an object or animal acting like a human.
31. A very long narrative poem that tells of a hero's deeds
32. A writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story. This is called .....
33. Long, Narrative Poem that tells a story of a hero or historical figure or event.
34. Two lines of poetry that rhyme (AA)
35. "word-picture;" an image is a word or group of words that refers to something that can be experienced by the senses
36. What do we call a song or song-like poem that tells a story and usually has a regular, steady rhythm, a simple rhyme pattern, and a refrain?
37. What does onomatopoeia mean?
38. "The air is drugged with azalea blossoms" is an example of .....
39. The dictionary definition of the word.
40. How many stanzas?
41. A comparison of 2 unlike things without using like or as (is, are, was)
42. A songlike narrative poem that features repetition and strong meter
43. Part that stands for a whole .....
44. Which of these is an example of end rhyme?
45. The flow of the beat in a poem, giving poetry a musical feel
46. "I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing." -Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People
47. A proposal, remark, hint, designed to bring out the opinions or purposes of others:
48. The repetition found at the beginning of consecutive (one after another) phrases, verses, sentences, etc.
49. Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good night till it be morrow. The lines above
50. What is another name for the narrator of a poem?
51. Words have the same beginning sound.
52. A distinct numbered group of lines within a poem
53. Harsh, discordant sounds (k, t, g, b, d, p, ch, sh, s) in words
54. A long speech delivered by a single character and directed at other characters onstage.
55. Which of the following uses "omniscient narrator" point of view?
56. A poem that has few or no rhyming words and no particular pattern is known as a .....
57. An extreme exaggeration is .....
58. Using overstatement to show that something is important
59. Assonance is the repeating of vowel sounds in nearby words.
60. This is an example of:There is a confirmed rumor spreading the hallways.
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