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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:
 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        
2. Poetry Terms:
 Emily Dickinson says: "Hope is a Thing with Feathers” What is the figure of speech called here?
       Metaphor        
       Simile        
       Hyperbole        
       Alexandrine        
       Euphony        
3. Poetry Form Term:
 What is an antiphon?
       A quiet, meditative poem        
       The consecutive placement of syllables with contrasting sounds        
       A poem with words and phrases put together from several unrelated sources        
       A poem that is a journal of the poet's daily activities ending in an epiphany        
       A poem in which two voices respond to one another in alternate verses or stanzas        
4. Poetry Terms:
 What is syllabic verse?
       The verse form in which the syllables are separated by dashes on every other line        
       A short form of verse with a silly or satiric subject        
       A form of poetry written like a syllabus or the contents of a curriculum        
       A type of verse written only by counting the number of syllables in each line        
       A type of verse where lines consist of graphic imagery and cacophony        
5. Poetry Terms:
 What is the continuation of a sentence from one line into the next called?
       Apostrophe        
       Cacophony        
       Metonymy        
       Denotation        
       Enjambment        
6. 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        
7. 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        
8. 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        
9. 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        
10. 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        
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