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Poetry Terms Quiz 98 (60 MCQs)

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1. A poem dealing with rural life, often involving shepherds, representing the idealized version of country life
2. What kind of rhyme is employed in this lines from a poem:I see the red boat that has a red flag.Just like my red coat and my little red pail.
3. An extreme exaggeration to emphasize the truth or show humor.
4. Poetry that rejects older, more traditional forms in favor of verse that sounds more like natural human speech is called:
5. A play on words, where an author employs a word that has a second meaning or that sounds to a similar word, and both meanings can be applied
6. A pattern of stressed (strong) and unstressed (weak) syllables is known as .....
7. Does this sentence have a literal or figurative meaning? The bridge of my nose is bruised.
8. This is a song-like narrative poem, usually written in rhymes stanzas and only 4-6 lines featuring repetition and strong meter
9. The following is an example of which sound device? "Proud round cloud"
10. What is a line in poetry?
11. A long narrative poem about the adventures of gods and/or heros.
12. ..... is an open form, but does not have regular patterns of rhyme.
13. If a piece of literature is not poetry, it is called:
14. Language that describes a vivid sensory experience
15. "The Sun smiled at us."Is an example of:
16. When a line of poetry has ten syllables per line following an unstressed/stressed pattern
17. A cinquain consists of .....
18. Something that stands for itself, but also something larger than itself.
19. Which is the correct defintion of Simile?
20. The musical quality created by meter
21. What two words does a simile use to compare two unlike things?
22. From somewhere far beyond, the flag of fate's caprice unfurled .....
23. A narrative poem.....
24. Which is an example of rhyme?
25. A poem of only two lines
26. Stanza with 2 lines
27. The repetition of similar sounds and the pattern produced in a poem, usually marked by letters:abba.
28. A poem which has a series of rigid requirements, usually concerning meter and rhyme, and has a name, is called:
29. Verse that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme, and is more like everyday speech
30. What is simile in poetry?
31. Which of the following best define poetry?
32. The repetition of similar sounds.
33. A comparison that shows similarities between two things that are otherwise dissimilar
34. Poems that require a fixed structure and pattern
35. Sound words-BAM!
36. A verse of a poem; a group of lines
37. Repetition of sounds at the end of words, identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem, but not always
38. What is the topic of a Haiku?
39. Language used in writing to make it more expressive
40. Words that sound the same
41. Play on words that makes a funny effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings
42. This is is the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.
43. What kind of poem is 'Porphyria's Lover'?
44. Comparing two things without the use of "like" or "as"
45. It was July, and the sun toasted the emerald grass until it smelled of warmth and green and life. It was July, and my heart soaked up the air warmth until it sang of joy and love and life. How many stanzas in the poem above?
46. A pleasant combination or agreeable sounds.
47. An exaggerated statement or claim.
48. When something is said in a book that is in the further it is .....
49. A poem with no specific rhyme scheme but usually in iambic pentameter/
50. A process in which you look for things that are the same. (2 or more things)
51. What poetic device is exemplified by the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword"
52. (BAM! Splat. SHHHHHH!)
53. Poems free of rules and patterns
54. What are sound devices?
55. Which is the correct defintion of Couplet?
56. Literal definition
57. The following is an example of which sound device?ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
58. What term describes when a writer describes something by comparing it with something else?
59. Writer's attitude toward his or her audience or subject
60. What word refers to words whose sounds suggest their meaning?
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