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Poetry Terms Quiz 97 (60 MCQs)

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1. Joan groaned in a low tone
2. "My heart's a stereo." The kind of figurative language used here is .....
3. A traditional Japanese poem about nature; three lines with a total of 17 syllables
4. A four-line stanza or poem.
5. A five line poem organized by a word pattern-1 word in line 1, 2 words in line 2, 3 words in line 3, so on
6. The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words
7. The plums are proud and round.
8. Before you try to analyze the meaning of the poem you should:
9. This is a type of poetry that exhibits poetic language but does not follow fixed patterns.
10. An exaggeration used to emphasize a truth
11. The dreams are clues that tell us take chances. The source of faith in happiness andDaylight changes, and it is time to take The night frost drips silently from the roof The above is an example of:
12. A life lesson or message about life
13. How many syllables does a haiku have in all?
14. The same VOWEL sounds in the middle of words that are close together.
15. Verse writing that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, stanza structure.
16. A stanza with 2 lines is a .....
17. The lines of a poem arranged into a group
18. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of each line
19. A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for someone who has passed away
20. What is a brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art?
21. The words, phrases, and sentences that come before and after a particular word in a passage
22. Rhythm/Meter is defined as.....
23. When writers and speakers use words that are more than the basic meaning of the words
24. The musical sound of a poem
25. A type of literature that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions
26. What poetic device is this an example of?"I watched Deaf men and women of all ages / dance in unison to the vibrations / of speakers booming so loud"
27. The person telling or relating a poem is called-
28. A poem that does not have a set rhythm, set line length, or set rhyme scheme
29. This is when the last word in a line will be echoed by a word at the beginning or in the middle of another line.
30. A way to analyze poetry that looks at the surface, intention, feelings, and technique is
31. I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.The above stanza has what three things?
32. Poems shaped like their subjects
33. Rhyming that occurs within one line of poetry
34. A word inside a line of poetry rhymes with another word in the same line
35. Using the word childish versus youthful. They both have the same definition in the dictionary but we get a different "feel" from each word. This "feel" is an example of:
36. A comparison made using the words "like" or "as"
37. A repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words
38. What is the purpose of concrete poetry?
39. Life is a highway.
40. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse, is an example of what?
41. A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art outside of the text itself.
42. Which of these is a metaphor?
43. Lines repeated regularly in a poem
44. Is an alternative to a literal meaning, this is used to create imagery
45. The repetition of vowel sounds at any place in a series of words
46. Which animal symbolizes wisdom and knowledge?
47. A word that imitates the sound it describes
48. Giving human qualities to nonliving things
49. Hit and put.A partial or imperfect rhyme. The vowel sounds in half rhymes are usually not identical. ("worm" and "swarm" or "blood" and "brood.")
50. When poets carry a metaphor over several lines or throughout an entire poem
51. This poem is in iambic pentameter but has no rhyme.
52. A Japanese poetry form with no rhyme.
53. A repeated phrase, line, or group of lines
54. Comparison of two unlike things where one word is used to designate the other (one is the other)
55. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human characteristics such as feelings, movement of limbs, language, etc.
56. The stars winked at me. The book read itself to me. The tree whispered in the wind. is an example of
57. Speaking directly to an inanimate object
58. A basic structural component of a poem.
59. Length and placement of lines in groupings on the page
60. Which of the following is a concrete noun?
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