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Poetry Terms

Quiz by Allison Beadle

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20 questions
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  • Q1
    Two line stanza
    Couplet
    30s
  • Q2
    A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
    Meter
    30s
  • Q3
    A humorous five line poem
    Limerick
    30s
  • Q4
    The way the writer feels about a subject
    Tone
    30s
  • Q5
    Does not have a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
    Free verse
    30s
  • Q6
    Example of rhyme scheme
    abab
    30s
  • Q7
    A group of lines forming a unit in a poem
    Stanza
    30s
  • Q8
    A poem that mourns the passing of something or someone
    Elegy
    30s
  • Q9
    A poem that resembles a list
    Catalog poem
    30s
  • Q10
    When writers give human qualities to nonhuman things
    Personification
    30s
  • Q11
    A poem that pays tribute to someone or something
    Ode
    30s
  • Q12
    The sleeping cat is a cushion
    Metaphor
    30s
  • Q13
    milly/molly
    Slant rhymes
    30s
  • Q14
    Words with sounds
    Onomatopoeia
    30s
  • Q15
    Tried to tutor two tooters to toot
    Alliteration
    30s

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