*Magnify*
SPONSORED LINKS
BY ONLINE AUTHORS
Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/quiz/item_id/1145017-Poetry-Terms
Printer Friendly Page Tell A Friend
(44)
by Joy
Rated: ASR · Quiz · Writing · #1145017
How well do you know the poetic language? Test yourself with 10 questions at each try.
A painting by Van Gogh


          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 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        
2. 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        
3. 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        
4. Poetry Terms:
 What is the name of the poetic device when a poet directly addresses an absent person, place or an abstraction as in the following example? "Hail to thee, blithe spirit!/ Bird thou never wert…" --"To a Skylark" by Percy B. Shelley--
       Apostrophe        
       Falling Meter        
       Alliteration        
       Enallage        
       Foreshadowing        
5. Poetry Terms:
 "Others will enter the gates of the ferry, and cross from shore to shore; Others will watch the run of the flood-tide; Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east; Others will see the islands large and small;" Walt Whitman in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" repeats the word "Others" in the beginnings of his lines. What is the name of the poetic device he has used?
       Masculine Rhyme        
       Hyperbole        
       Enallage        
       Feminine Rhyme        
       Anaphora        
6. 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        
7. 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        
8. Poetry Terms:
 In this line, Emerson repeated words starting with the letter p: "The purple petals, fallen in the pool" What is the name of the poetic device he used?
       Catachresis        
       Oxymoron        
       Alliteration        
       Feminine Rhyme        
       Apostrophe        
9. Poetry Terms:
 What is the poetic term for word pictures?
       Catachresis        
       Simile        
       Imagery        
       Allusion        
       Foreshadowing        
10. 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        
How'd you do? Click below for your results:
          
Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/quiz/item_id/1145017-Poetry-Terms