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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:
 What is a repetend?
       Recycling the same line in different poems        
       A rhyme scheme with strict end rhymes        
       The irregular repetition of a word or phrase at various places in the entire poem        
       Repeated pausing after the first two words in the lines of a stanza        
       Poet's name deftly included and repeated several times in a poem        
2. 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        
3. Poetry Terms:
 What is a collage poem?
       A poem with pictures or photos pasted on the side of the page it is written on        
       A visual poem that has a specific shape with each line printed ina different color        
       A poem with words and phrases put together from several unrelated sources        
       A poem that is a journal of the poet's daily activities        
       A poem made from lists of painting supplies        
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:
 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        
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 an envoi or envoy?
       Short verse sent to one's beloved        
       A line of three syllables        
       The visual content of a stanza        
       The terminal syllable at the end of a stanza        
       A half stanza at the end of some French forms like sestina        
8. Poetry and Writing Term:
 What is the term for the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word?
       Catachresis        
       Oxymoron        
       Enallage        
       Denotation        
       Solecism        
9. Poetry Terms:
 Emily Dickinson says: "Hope is a Thing with Feathers” What is the figure of speech called here?
       Metaphor        
       Simile        
       Hyperbole        
       Alexandrine        
       Euphony        
10. 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        
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