Batman English Poetry Test

Question 0

Figurative language

Answer 0

expressing ideas indirectly; language used in a special way to create a special effect made up of words

Question 1

Lyric poetry

Answer 1

Lyric poems typically express personal or emotional feelings and are traditionally the home of the present tense

Question 2

Rhyme scheme

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the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

Question 3

Narrative poetry

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the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

Question 4

Onomatopoeia

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the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ).

Question 5

Imagery

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visually descriptive or figurative language, esp. in a literary work.

Question 6

Metaphor

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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Question 7

Personification

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Question 8

Hyperbole

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Question 9

Simile

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a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).

Question 10

Idiom

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a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).

Question 11

Alliteration

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Question 12

Consonance

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agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.

Question 13

Assonance

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in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ).

Question 14

Diamanté poem

Answer 14

A diamond poem, or diamante is a style of poetry that is made up of seven lines. The text forms the shape of a lozenge or diamond

Question 15

Concrete poem

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Concrete poetry or shape poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem

Question 16

Haiku

Answer 16

a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.