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Poetry Terms Quiz 99 (60 MCQs)

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1. Giving human characteristics to animals, objects, or ideas.
2. Poem in praise of a person, object, or event. Modern versions of this poem have multiple stanzas with 10 lines each, typically consisting of three to five stanzas. They use the rhyme scheme ABAB-CDECDE in each stanza.
3. A point where the piece takes a different route in rhyme, topic, tone, subject .....
4. "We may not save the plain cake for later." This is an example of:
5. 'Their love outshone even that of Romeo and Juliets' is an example of .....
6. One of the divisions of a poem, usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines (kind of like a paragraph in prose)
7. Did you know that not all deserts arehot? Both hot and cold deserts are verydry, but unlike hot deserts, cold deserts have longwinters when the temperatures can reach belowfreezing. Cold deserts also get a great deal ofsnow, which is certainly not true for hot deserts.
8. A short poem with three lines and a 5-7-5 syllable pattern is called a?
9. What is a comparison using the words like or as?
10. Author uses words that appeal to senses (sight, touch, smell, sound, taste)
11. What is a group of lines in a poem called ("paragraph")?
12. Message or universal understanding that the poem explores
13. "Muggles" belong in which book/movie series?
14. Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme is an example of what?
15. Vivid description of things seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted
16. Rhyming within the line-not at the end.
17. This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using like or as.
18. IDENTIFY THE RHYME SCHEMETrue friends are by your sideThrough it allTrue friends are thereTo catch you when you fall.
19. Long (book length) narrative in verse form that retells a heroic journey.
20. A writer's voice and attitude in a piece.
21. The snow is a white blanket. Metaphor?
22. I'm drowning in paperwork.
23. A pattern formed by the end rhyme in a poem
24. Which type of poem is usually song like?
25. What word means the use of extreme exaggeration?
26. It conveys the tone author's "attitude" about the poem's subject matter. It is what we "hear" when we read or listen to a poem:
27. Which word means images that are created in the mind while reading or looking at art?
28. The pattern of rhyme, usually indicated by assigning a letter of the alphabet to each rhyme at the end of a line of poetry. ABBA, BCCB,
29. An example of REPETITION is .....
30. Connotation is a word's .....
31. Writing done in paragraphs and complete sentences
32. Which of the following poems does not rhyme?
33. Which term means pictures formed in the mind using your five senses?
34. The repetition of sounds at the start of words
35. A metaphor that goes several lines or possibly the entire length of a work is called an
36. Aside from rhyme, which poetic device do these lines show? 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.
37. "You got to spend money to make money"
38. The feelings/emotions of the reader created by the author's words
39. Most people will choose their name when doing what kind of a poem?
40. Rhyme that occurs within a line is:
41. The best definition for Assonance is .....
42. Boom! is an example of
43. The attitude the author takes towards a subject
44. A poem consisting of one octave and a sestet with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde
45. This is an unrhymed three line lyric poem usually focusing on nature; lines 1 and 3 have 5 syllables and line 2 has 7 syllables
46. The repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words in one line of poetry.
47. The subject of a poem .....
48. A writer's central idea or main message about life.
49. A form of poetry that tells a story is
50. Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words (such as "Mary baked more muffins than any other mom." )
51. "As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?
52. Repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words
53. The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. Dealing destruction's devastating doom.
54. The gap that separates stanzas.
55. The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry known as a foot
56. An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually 4 or more, that sometimes have a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme is a:
57. Pleasant, harmonious sound
58. "The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me-" These lines are an example of ..... in the poem
59. The use of words or phrases whose sounds suggest their meanings.
60. An "allusion" is a reference to what?
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