Poetry Terms Quiz 352 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. A poet's word choices
2. The way the poem makes the reader feel is called the
3. Words with the same sounds at the end.
4. When you use a word or phrase that does NOT have its normal every day, literal meaning.
5. Literary work in which special attention is given to the expression of feelings & ideas.
6. The ordered pattern of rhymes. An example:Whenever Richard Cory went to town, A We people on the pavement looked at him; B He was a gentleman from sole to crown A Clean favored and imperially slim. B
7. The feeling the author creates for the reader
8. What figurative language device is usedin this sentence? The garden hose was a long green serpentlying in loops on the lawn.
9. What is a "apostrophe" ?
10. An extended comparison between something that the audience cannot have seen and something ordinary that they would have been very familiar with
11. The rhythm or movement of words in the poem.
12. A poem where some verses rhyme and some do not.
13. What are rhyming words in the same line of a poem (like "I can be a man with a plan")
14. A form a figurative language which makes a comparison by stating thattwo items are the same-that one is the other
15. Based on the information in the poem "The Road Not Taken", why might the second road have "wanted wear" and been "grassy?"
16. Lyric poetry expresses .....
17. A line of pentameter contains this many feet:
18. In Taylor Swift's poem "Bad Blood", the following is an example of what? "Now we got problems/ And I don't think we can solve 'em/You made a really deep cut/And baby, now we got bad blood (hey!)" Choose the best answer.
19. What is a clever, witty form of figurative language
20. A 17-syllable traditional Japanese poem; unrhymed; has no title; has three lines containing syllables of 5, 7 & 5; usually about nature