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Poetry Terms Quiz 91 (60 MCQs)

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1. How do you differentiate between lyric and narrative poems?
2. Is the imitation of natural sounds in word form. These words help us form mental pictures, or visualize, things, people, or places that are described. Sometimes a word names a thing or action by copying the sound.
3. The unit of a poem, specifically a group of words arranged into a row is called-
4. A two-lined stanza
5. What is it called when a metrical foot has an unstressed, stressed pattern?
6. What type of rhyme do we see in Black Thought's "Respond/React" ?Slow up before you get dropped and closed like a caption/ Fractional kids don't know the time for action/ Styles got the rhythm that of an Anglo-Saxon/ Round of applause, an avalanche of clappin/that's what happen, now what's your reaction?/
7. The moral life lesson from a piece of literature
8. Rhymes at the end of lines.
9. Group of lines that form verses
10. The voice that narrates the events of the poem is called .....
11. A truth, lesson or message about life in a poem or other literary text.
12. Two words within a line that rhyme
13. A group of lines in a poem that are set off by blank lines
14. A type of sonnet that consists of an octave and a sestet; a break in thought or a turn comes between the two.
15. What kind of rhyme is employed in this lines from a poem:It is fallible men who make the law.This maybe a flaw, but there's no other way.
16. The grass was dancing in the wind is an example of
17. Poetry with no regular rhyme pattern or rhythm.
18. Elements such as rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and onomatopoeia-gives poetry a musical quality are .....
19. Giving human qualities or characteristics to nonhuman things
20. A pause that occurs within a line of poetry, usually marked by some form of punctuation such as a full stop, comma or dash is called .....
21. A form of poetry that tells a story, often using elements of a narrative such as narrator, plot, setting, and characters
22. A sound device in which sounds, words or phrases are repeated to emphasize a point is called .....
23. Which poetry term is used in the following line:'The wind whispered through the trees'?
24. What is understatement?
25. I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
26. Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme, meter, or form.
27. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally, but rather intended to create poetic imagery
28. The message or lesson that the author wants you to learn from the story is called the
29. A poem with a shape that suggests its subject matter is classified as:
30. A metaphor where part of something signifies the whole ex) all hands on deck, ..... the reverse, the whole represents a part ex) Canada played the US in Olympic Final ..... container represents the thing being contained ex) the pot is boiling ..... & the material where an object represents the object itself ex) quarterback tossed the pigskin
31. Which term means the pattern of end rhyme in a poem?
32. (This helps to convey the overall mood and tone of a poem)
33. A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to create a strong meaning
34. A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison
35. There was a little guinea pig, Who being little, was not big; He always walked upon his feet, And never fasted when he eat.
36. What is the following statement an example of? I'm a riddle in nine syllables
37. A poem with 14 lines and fixed verse is called a?
38. What does the sentence below actually mean?Lightning danced across the sky.
39. A ballad is similar to a narrative poem in that it:
40. When there is no rhyming pattern at all that is called?
41. I row a golden boat.
42. The wind was loud, but very calm.It whirled around, like a tornadonot slowing the slightest bit. How many stanza's are in this poem?
43. Which is an example of a synecdoche?
44. Poetry is a form of writing that is meant to:
45. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers ..... " is an example of what?
46. Compares two unlike things by saying one thing is a dissimilar object or thing
47. A three-line line Japanese verse that has a 5-7-5 syllable line construction is a:
48. A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable
49. Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects or animals
50. This word describes a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound in a poem-the "beat."
51. This is when you read a poem and put its meaning into your own words
52. Popular sayings that cannot be understood on their own.
53. One single line of text in a poem.
54. The use of a symbol to represent something other than itself Creates a mood or strong feelings to help the reader understand
55. A figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
56. "I ask them to take a poem."What poetic term is being shown here?
57. What type of figurative language is shown? She is so smart. She is a walking dictionary.
58. Using like or as.
59. End-stopped line
60. A particular grouping of lines in a poem-also called a verse.
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