Poetry Test!

Question 1

What is an Internal Rhyme?

Answer 1

It occurs when at least one of the rhymed words falls within a line or (in the middle of the sentence)

Question 2

What is an External Rhyme?

Answer 2

It’s a pattern of words that rhyme on the “outside” edge of the poem.

Question 3

What is an exact rhyme?

Answer 3

It’s where the rhyme is exact

Ex: “moon” “June”

Question 4

What is an onomatopoeia?

Answer 4

Using words that sound like what they mean

Ex: “Boom” “clap”

Question 5

What is repetition?

Answer 5

It’s a sound,syllable,word,phrase,line,stanza, or metrical pattern is a basic unifying device

Question 6

What is alliteration?

Answer 6

Repeating of the same constant sound in several words

Question 7

What is assonance?

Answer 7

Repetition of vowel sounds in several words

Question 8

What is rhyme?

Answer 8

Repetition of a stressed vowel sounds in words close together

Question 9

What is Juxtaposition ?

Answer 9

Placement of objects to compare them

Ex: “my feet stepping on the cracks in the cement detonated red bombs”

Question 10

What is Tone?

Answer 10

It’s the attitude expressed by the writer- set by the words chosen

Question 11

What is imagery?

Answer 11

It’s the language that appeals to the senses

Ex: “A fish hook, an open eye”

Question 12

What is Diction?

Answer 12

It’s the authors word choice- contributes to the tone, or attitude expressed by the speaker

Question 13

What is Hyperbole?

Answer 13

It’s an exaggeration that is so outrageous that no one wold believe it is true

Question 14

What is personification?

Answer 14

When you give human traits to non human things

Question 15

What is a simile?

Answer 15

It compares two things using “like” or “as”

Question 16

What is a metaphor?

Answer 16

It compares something to something else by stating that it is the same thing

Question 17

What is a Allusion?

Answer 17

It’s an indirect reference to a well known literary work, historical event, or significant person/creature to evoke old meanings and to create new meanings

Question 18

What is an oxymoron?

Answer 18

It’s when you go against what you just said or state the opposite

Question 19

What is an idiom?

Answer 19

It’s an expression that means something different from what the words themselves mean

Question 20

What is a speaker ?

Answer 20

It’s the narrative voice in a poem that speaks of his or her feelings/ situation

Question 21

What is a meter?

Answer 21

It’s a specific rhythm determined by the number of beats and the time value assigned to each note in a measure

Question 22

What is Rhyme Scheme?

Answer 22

It’s the order pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem or verse

Question 23

What is a cinquain?

Answer 23

It’s a five line stanza

Question 24

What is a Quatrain?

Answer 24

It’s a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes

Question 25

What is a tercet ?

Answer 25

It’s a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet

Question 26

What is a couplet ?

Answer 26

It’s two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that a unit

Question 27

What is a stanza?

Answer 27

It’s a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem

Question 28

What is a line?

Answer 28

It’s a basic unit of a poem

Question 29

What is a verse?

Answer 29

It’s a writing arrangement with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme

Question 30

What is a prose?

Answer 30

It’s a written or spoken language in its ordinary form without metrical structure

Question 31

What is an Approximate Rhyme?

Answer 31

It’s the repetition of same sounds but not exact echoes