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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:
 Emily Dickinson says: "Hope is a Thing with Feathers” What is the figure of speech called here?
       Metaphor        
       Simile        
       Hyperbole        
       Alexandrine        
       Euphony        
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:
 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        
4. Poetry Terms:
 What kind of a rhyme this word pair would make? eating // feeding
       Masculine Rhyme        
       Rising Meter        
       Litote        
       Feminine Rhyme        
       Metonymy        
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 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        
7. Poetry and Writing Term:
 What is the term for the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word?
       Catachresis        
       Oxymoron        
       Enallage        
       Denotation        
       Solecism        
8. Poetry Terms:
 What is the continuation of a sentence from one line into the next called?
       Apostrophe        
       Cacophony        
       Metonymy        
       Denotation        
       Enjambment        
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:
 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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