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Poetry Terms Quiz 92 (60 MCQs)

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1. A form of poetry that tells a story and has a setting, characters, and a plot
2. Which of the following terms means: "A group of consecutive lines that forms a single unit. A poetic paragraph."
3. Which poetry term can be found in the following example? Lovely Linda likes lazy lizards.
4. The narrator of a poem (character/person telling the poem; not always the author).
5. Rhyme that does not match exactly (love/prove)
6. Specific arrangement of a poem that includes lines and stanzas
7. A person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well.
8. A poem's theme is .....
9. Tahquamenon FallsWater rushing, gushing, pushingpast the limits of the edge.Water barrels off the ledge, whipping up the bottom sludge, makes the water look like fudge, growling with a freight train's roar, wildly rushes out some more. This is an example of
10. What do we call the pattern of stresses or beats in written language?
11. What is the definition of audience?
12. Sensory language that creates word pictures in readers' minds The word is .....
13. A group of lines in a poem or song is called
14. Comparison between two unlike things using "like", "as", "than", or "resembles"
15. The bright red and yellow explosions of fireworks bloomed in the night as the BOOM deafened the crowd. The smell of gunpowder drifted through the air and mixed with the smells of BBQ and fresh cut grass.
16. The repetition of a vowel sounds within a word such as Minnesota and finish
17. Which is the correct defintion of blank verse?
18. A pause somewhere in the middle of a verse, often (but not always) marked by punctuation.
19. The way the poet feels about the subject of his or her work is called-
20. Words that sound alike
21. A rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse
22. Line or lines in a poem that are repeated at the end of a stanza
23. Poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern or meter
24. The person or narrator telling the story
25. "There are a ton of similes in the poem." This is an example of .....
26. Describing an inanimate object, abstract thing, or non-human animal in human terms
27. What is a common theme in haiku?
28. The poet organizes the poem by-
29. The atmosphere the author creates using literary devices
30. What is a triplet or tercet?
31. Using words that have the same (or very similar) ending soundis called
32. The treadmill smiled when Sally finally used it This is an example of .....
33. The author's word choice
34. She had butterflies in her stomach is an example of:
35. Is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. We can describe rhyme scheme using letters to indicate different rhymes.
36. A knot in the wood; there is beauty in just that.A simple marking.
37. I was as sick as a dog is an example of a/an ..... ?
38. The use of a word, phrase, line, or sound more than once is
39. A group of lines in a poem that is repeated is called
40. A brief reference to a biblical, historical literary, or mythological person, place, thing, or idea
41. Free verse is poetry that follows a set structure and uses specific types of rhymes within the poem. It usually has a regular meter and rhyme scheme.
42. Lines of poetry that continue forward in sense and punctuation into the next line.
43. Pattern of beats in poetry
44. Poem where first letter of a word spells out a significant word
45. What is it called when a poem has repeated words or phrases; used to make something clear or to draw attention to the words or phrases?
46. The central idea or message of a piece of literature
47. A rhyme that occurs in two consecutive (back to back) lines of poetry
48. Long, narrative poem telling the events of a hero's deeds
49. The exact significance of a word or phrase taken without anyadded exaggeration, imagination, or connotations.
50. A comparison of two unlike objects that uses like or as
51. Identify the rhyme scheme.One fish two fish red fish blue fish.Black fish blue fish old fish new fish. This one has a little star.This one has a little car.Say! What a lot of fish there are.
52. Which of the following is an oxymoron?
53. Meant to tell a funny story; has five lines; has the rhyme scheme AABBA
54. Two rhyming lines next to one another. Couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet.
55. The use of words that have repetition of similar vowel sounds but are not rhyming words is called
56. In poetry, form is .....
57. A humorous five-line poem that uses an AABBA rhyme scheme.
58. Which term describes the repetition of similar vowel sounds within a word?
59. The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. Example:pensive poets, nattering nabobs of negativism.
60. Anything that evokes the five senses
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