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Like most living things, poetry has a language with special terms of its own.

Sometimes, we receive reviews for our poems including some poetry terms.

Sometimes, when we read a poem, we want recognize poetic devices the poet uses.

Sometimes, we want to write poems using the poetic devices.

All in these cases, knowing the terms enhances our appreciation of poetry.

Here is a fun quiz to see how well you remember some of the terms of poetry.

This quiz has a lot of questions. You may take it as many times as you wish. Each time you take it, it is possible to encounter different questions.

Good Luck!

1. Poetry Terms:

What is quantitative meter?

	Using different types of meter for each line
	The measuring of the time the syllables' pronunciation takes rather than counting stresses or syllables
	Employing concrete verbal imitations of vectors in physics
	Using metaphors and metonymy in every line
	Blank verse with elevated diction

2. Poetry terms:

"*Once in a life, they tell us, // and once only,* *So great a thing as a great love may come--* *To crown us, // or to mark us with a scar *No craft or custom shall obliterate"* From Roman Bartholow by Edwin Arlington Robinson---- What is the pause called, which falls naturally within a line of verse and is sometimes designated by a mark like // in scansion?

	Alexandrine
	Caesura
	Metaphor
	Anaphora
	Apostrophe

3. Poetry Terms:

What is the continuation of a sentence from one line into the next called?

	Apostrophe
	Cacophony
	Metonymy
	Denotation
	Enjambment

4. Poetry Terms:

What is the term for two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem?

	Ellipsis
	Poulter's measure
	Dub poetry
	Stichomythia
	Foot

5. Poetry Terms:

What is the poetic term for word pictures?

	Catachresis
	Simile
	Imagery
	Allusion
	Foreshadowing

6. Poetry Terms:

What is caesura?

	The climax of the poem
	A very short poem
	A hint of what is to come next
	A pause that falls naturally within a line of verse
	The effect of implying a meaning

7. Poetry Terms:

What is an invocation?

	The carrying over of one line into the next without any grammatical break
	An adressing of a god or goddess usually in the beginning of an epic poem
	A poem of loss, lamentation, regret, and sorrow
	A poem that is a journal of the poet's daily activities ending in an epiphany
	A half stanza concluding some French forms

8. Poetry Terms:

What is the figure of speech that uses exaggeration called, as the one John Donne used in the following lines? "Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, "

	Masculine Rhyme
	Hyperbole
	Litote
	Anaphora
	Apostrophe

9. Poetry Terms:

What is accentual verse?

	Measure of the length of a stanza for example 4 lines, 6 lines, or 7 lines
	A rhyme scheme with strict end rhymes
	A rhymed couplet following a stanza
	Verse in which only the accents or stresses are counted for meter
	Free verse containing internal rhymes

10. Poetry Terms:

What do we call those rhymes in a poem when the end rhymes share a similarity but do not exactly rhyme like in "jade" "head" "bead," ?

	Slant rhymes, half rhymes, or off rhymes
	Resounding rhymes
	Shakespearean rhymes
	Elevated rhymes
	Shifting or turning rhymes

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