Poetry Quiz 1

Question 1

Prose

Answer 1

Way we usually write and speak

Question 2

Verse

Answer 2

Describes poetic lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern that often rhyme

Question 3

Stanza

Answer 3

Section of poem like a paragraph in prose

Question 4

Couplet, Quatrain

Answer 4

2 lines, 4 lines

Question 5

Repetition

Answer 5

Repeating words, lines, or ideas to make a point

Question 6

Refrain

Answer 6

Line or group of lines repeated regularly or irregularly

Question 7

Blank Verse*

Answer 7

Unrhymed lines or iambic pattern (10 syllables, every other syllable streesed)(like shakespear)

Question 8

Rhyme

Answer 8

Repition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words often at the end of lines

Question 9

Meter

Answer 9

When rhythmic pattern of STRESSES recurs in a poem

Question 10

Rhythm

Answer 10

Used to refer the recurrence of stressed OR UNSTRESSED sounds

Question 11

Metaphor

Answer 11

Comparing 2 things NOT using like or as (extended metaphor-entire poem of text making one connection)

Question 12

Simile

Answer 12

Conparing 2 things USING like or as

Question 13

Personification

Answer 13

Giving nonhuman things human characteristics

Question 14

Hyperbole

Answer 14

Enormous exaggeration

Question 15

Symbol

Answer 15

Something small representing something larger

Question 16

Alliteration*

Answer 16

Repition of the same CONSONANT sounds in a sequence usually at the BEGINNING of a word/syllable (Descending Dew Drops)

Question 17

Consonance*

Answer 17

Common type of rhyme consisting of IDENTICAL CONSONANT sounds preceded by different vowel sounds (wORTH, brEATH)

Question 18

Assonance*

Answer 18

Repitition of INTERNAL VOWEL sounds in nearby words that don’t end the same (aslEEp under a trEE)

Question 19

Imagery

Answer 19

Words used that paint pictures in the readers’ minds

Question 20

Mood

Answer 20

Way the setting affects the the readers and characters

Question 21

Tone

Answer 21

How the AUTHOR feels about his characters and subject

Question 22

Allusion

Answer 22

Refrence to another work, person, place, or time

Question 23

Onomatopoeia

Answer 23

Word or combination of words resembling sounds (buzz, rattle, bang)

Question 24

Archetype

Answer 24

Describes universal symbols that evoke deep or unconscious responses (quests, initiations, descents to underworld, ascents to heaven)

Question 25

Speaker

Answer 25

Voice used by the author to tell story or poem, often created identity and not equated with the author’s self