Poetry Quiz
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- Q1__________ is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms.Free VerseLimericksConcrete PoetryLyric Poetry30s
- Q2____________ is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significanceAllusionImageryPersonificationMetaphors30s
- Q3Why do poets use repetition in their poems?because you need repetition to create a good poemfor funto emphasize a feeling or idea, create rhythm, and/or develop a sense of urgency.to create a sad tone30s
- Q4“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." What is this an example of?AssonanceAlliterationRepetitionA metaphor30s
- Q5what type of poem is this? A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short linesballadlimericknarrativefree verse30s
- Q6"The sunset was the most gorgeous they’d ever seen; the clouds were edged with pink and gold." what type of figurative language is this?personificationmetaphorimageryRepetition30s
- Q7______________ the pattern of long, short, stressed, and unstressed syllables in writing.AssonanceFree VerseRepetitionRhythm30s
- Q8What is a haiku?a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.is a poem which tells a story. It has a full storyline with all the elements of a traditional storyis a poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB.30s
- Q9“Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth." What type of poem is this?Free verseHaikuSonnetLimerick30s
- Q10"Lightning danced across the sky. The wind howled in the night." What are these examples of?SimileAlliterationPersonificationMetaphor30s
- Q11What is assonance?a humorous poemA song that tells a story, often using simple, folksy languagethe repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernibleThe use of vivid visual images.30s
- Q12What is a group of two or more lines that make up a single unit of a larger poem, traditionally in a set structure (of couplets, tercets, quatrains, etc.)?RhythmParagraphsSentencesStanza30s
- Q13what is poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices?haikusonnetsconcrete poetryfree verse30s
- Q14________ is the poet’s attitude toward the poem’s speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader.themesimiletonefigurative language30s
- Q15what is theme?the repetition of the sound of a vowela piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmicalunderlying meaning or message of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly.a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions30s