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Poetry Terms Quiz 96 (60 MCQs)

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1. The "beat" of the poem, also known as meter.
2. The meaning of a word that does not reflect the dictionary definition. An example:The definition of home is love, comfort, and family together.
3. Identical sounds in rhyming
4. Figurative Language:Choose the example of personification.
5. Language that appeals to the senses-sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell
6. This refers to the writer's use of vivid and descriptive language that appeal to the senses in order to add depth to his/her work.
7. Which of the following terms is defined as:poetry that has NO set rhyme, rhythm, or meter and may use irregular line length, punctuation, and capitalization.
8. What is the structure of the poem
9. Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work.
10. Which of the following words has neutral connotation?
11. What is a poetic form?
12. What sound device is used in the following sentence:The green grass waves like a shimmering sea.As I lie in the sahde of a towering tree.
13. Words that have the same ending sound
14. ..... is a reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history religion, mythology, politics, sports, science or pop culture.
15. A statement that represents the main idea present in a literary work.
16. "She is like a butterfly" is an example of .....
17. A short form of poetry from Japan; typically about nature.
18. It's quiet now.I am alone with myself.Remembering the days when I didn't think I could
19. The blanket wrapped its arms around me. This line shows an example of:
20. Giving human characteristics to non-human objects
21. Conveys meanings beyond the literal meaning of words
22. The following are examples of what? My keys walked away. The stars winked at the campers.
23. Follows the ABAB CDCD EFEF GG pattern
24. A tongue twister uses .....
25. Poetry MUST rhyme.
26. Which best describes "Voice" ?
27. ..... is the correspondence of sound between different words, or the end of words.
28. Prose are texts that are NOT plays or poems.
29. Verse form of poetry consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
30. Your soul will follow.
31. There was such a joyful sadness in her beautiful face. What is the oxymoron?
32. A line of poetry containing six metrical feet
33. A comparison between two things that does NOT use any helping words
34. Obvious exaggeration used to emphasize a point or add excitement and humor to a poem or story.
35. What is an onomatopeia?
36. Reference to person, place, thing, or idea that has historical, cultural, literary, or political significance
37. Exaggerated statements or claims that are not meant to be taken literally
38. Direct comparison between two unlike things. It does not use the words like or as.
39. I usually feel much ..... when you all succeed and do well.
40. "Besides the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze" is an example of .....
41. What is this an example of? Her cheeks are a red rose
42. A type of figurative language in which human traits are assigned to nonhuman objects
43. Rhyming which occurs at the end of the line of poetry
44. What is a tribute poem?
45. ..... is the pattern of stresses within a line of verse. All spoken word has a ..... formed by stressed and unstressed syllables.
46. A writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject or toward an audience
47. What is the correct definition for the following poetic devise:idioms
48. What is the definition of irony?
49. 'Then growling it slunk away' The poet is describing a hurricane. What is this an example of?
50. The use of sounds, words, or phrases or whole lines more than once in a poem; used to emphasize
51. Our feet squished in the mud.
52. An object that is used to represent an idea.
53. A comparison of two or more things without using "like" or "as" . Example:Jeannie is a fountain of knowledge.
54. A unit in poetry that consists of any words arranged in one row
55. Lamb-innocence, Dove-Peace or Eagle-America is an example of .....
56. I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
57. A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem is called a .....
58. What is a four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem referred to as?
59. A group of lines forming a unit in a poem.
60. The AUTHOR'S attitude towards a subject
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