Poetry Terms
        by Joy  (joycag@Writing.Com)


          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 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        
 
2. 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        
 
3. Poetry Terms:
 "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe" Lewis Carroll makes use of what device in 'Jabberwocky' by using unpleasant sounds created by clashing consonants?
      Anacrusis        
      Aposiopesis        
      Aleatory methods        
      Cacophony        
      Dissonance        
 
4. 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        
 
5. Poetry Terms:
 "A little month! or ere those shoes were old/ With which she followed my poor father's body…" Here, in Hamlet, Shakespeare refers to Niobe--who is the symbol of grief--while describing Queen Gertrude. What is the poetic device called when a poet refers to something with which he presumes the reader is familiar?
      Imagery        
      Oxymoron        
      Enallage        
      Alexandrine        
      Allusion        
 
6. Poetry Terms:
 What is meter?
      The entire length of an epic poem        
      Measurement of verse according to the pattern of its stressed and unstressed syllables        
      Two or more balancing statements        
      Verse that makes fun of a public figure's elocution        
      Measurement of similar or contrasting ideas in a poem        
 
7. 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        
 
8. Poetry Terms:
 What is Poe's repetition of vowels called in "Volume of forgotten lore" from Raven?
      Dissonance        
      Onomatopoeia        
      Assonance        
      Accent        
      Consonance        
 
9. Poetry Terms:
 What is pathetic fallacy?
      A form of spatial prosody        
      An artificial character created by the speaker in a poem        
      Attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects        
      Using derogatory remarks while praising someone        
      An oral-formulaic strategy of archaic poetry        
 
10. 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        
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