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Poetry Terms
How well do you know the poetic language? Test yourself with 10 questions at each try.
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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 a rhyme scheme?
      A metered line of verse        
      Words related in meaning        
      A pattern of end rhymes        
      A pattern of internal rhymes        
      Systematic implying of the same meaning in each line        
 
2. Poetry Terms:
 What is apocopated rhyme?
      Using the same word twice in a rhyme scheme and getting away with it        
      Another name for internal rhyme        
      A pattern of meter as in monometer, trimeter, tetrameter etc.        
      A pattern of rhyming words beginning with the same letter as in write-white        
      Rhyme with the last syllable missing as in tease-season or head-headed        
 
3. Poetry Terms:
 What is synechdoche?
      A part that is used to signify the whole        
      Repetition of vowel sounds        
      Uneven meter        
      The theme of the poem        
      A badly written poem        
 
4. 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        
 
5. Poetry Terms:
 What is the word that describes the process of analyzing a poem's meter? This is usually done by marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line and then, based on the pattern of the stresses, dividing the line into feet.
      Refrain        
      Scansion        
      Trochee        
      Stichic        
      Connotation        
 
6. Poetry Terms:
 What is the poetic term for word pictures?
      Catachresis        
      Simile        
      Imagery        
      Allusion        
      Foreshadowing        
 
7. 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        
 
8. Poetry Terms:
 What poetic device does Whitman use when he addresses Lincoln in "O Captain, My Captain!" as if he were alive and present and could reply?
      Metaphor        
      Hyperbole        
      Assonance        
      Anaphora        
      Apostrophe        
 
9. Poetry Terms:
 What is a line break?
      Putting in several spaces or tabs between words on a line        
      The end of a line in a poem        
      An unruly line in a poem different from the other lines in subject, tone, or structure        
      The place in a line where the subject of the poem changes direction        
      A punctuation mark inside a line        
 
10. Poetry Terms:
 Note that in the quote are associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional suggestions related to that word, such as the cat and other attributes related to a cat in "Fog" by Carl Sandburg.------- "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on." --- What is this poetic device called that clusters related meanings around the meaning of one word?
      Metaphor        
      Oxymoron        
      Assonance        
      Allusion        
      Connotation        
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