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PoetryTermsQuiz

1.Iuseconcretethingstorepresentabstractorspiritualthemes.WhatamI?

2.Irepeatinitialconsonantsounds.WhatamI?

3.Irefertofamoushistoricalorliterarywritings.WhatamI?

4.Irepeatwordsorphrasesatthebeginningofsentences.WhatamI?

5.Irepeatvowelsounds,andItrytomakerhymes.WhatamI?

6.Idon'tuserhymeandIhavetensyllablesineachline.WhatamI?

7.Iamasetoftwolineswhoselasttwowordsrhyme.WhatamI?

8.Iamaverylongpoemthattellsthetaleofaheroicfigure.WhatamI?

9.Foremphasis,Irepeatthesamewordsinarow.WhatamI?

10.Iamalongpoemthattellsastory.WhatamI?

11.Idon'tuseregularrhymeormeter.WhatamI?

12.IoriginatedinJapanandamverystructured,withthreelinesthathavefive,seven,andfive
syllables,respectively.WhatamI?

13.Iamashortpoemthatdescribessimpletimesinromanticways.WhatamI?

14.Idirectlycompareonethingwithanotherdissimilarthing.WhatamI?

15.Iamtherhythmicpattern,orhowwordsarestressed,ofalineofpoetry.WhatamI?

16.Iamaveryformalandelaboratelyricalpoem.WhatamI?

17.Iamawordwhosesoundimpliesitsmeaning.WhatamI?

18.Iamafigureofspeechwheretwounlikethingsarecompared,usingthewordslikeoras.
WhatamI?

19.Iama14linepoem,usuallyiniambicpentameter,withastructuredrhymescheme.What
amI?

20.Iamastanza,ashortsectionofalongerpoem,oratermforpoetryitself.WhatamI?

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PoetryTermsQuiz:AnswerKey

1.Iamanallegory.
Forexample:GeorgeOrwell'sAnimalFarm.

2.Iamalliteration.
Forexample:"Letusgoforthtoleadthelandwelove."
J.F.Kennedy'sInauguralSpeech

3.Iamanallusion.
Forexample:"HewasmorewrongedthanJob."
JamesTate,"TheLostPilot"

4.Iamananaphora.
Forexample:"Foreverythingthereisaseason,andatime
foreverymatterunderheaven:
atimetobeborn,andatimetodie;
atimetoplant,andatimetopluckup
whatisplanted;..."
Ecclesiastes3:12

5.Iamassonance.
Forexample:"Andso,allthenighttide,Iliedownbytheside
Ofmydarling,mydarling,mylifeandmybride."
EdgarAllanPoe,"AnnabelLee"

6.Iamblankverse.
Forexample:"Somethingthereisthatdoesn'tloveawall,
Thatsendsthefrozengroundswellunderit,
Andspillstheupperbouldersinthesun."
RobertFrost,"TheMendingWall"

7.Iamacouplet.
Forexample:"Solongasmencanbreatheoreyescansee,
Solonglivesthis,andthisgiveslifetothee."
WilliamShakespeare,Sonnet18

8.Iamanepic.
Forexample:Homer'sIliadandOdyssey,Virgil'sAeneid,andMilton'sParadiseLost.

9.Iamepizeuxis.
Forexample:"Water,water,everywhere,Noranydroptodrink."
SamuelColeridge,"TheRimeoftheAncientMariner"

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10.Iamanarrativepoem.
Forexample:PercyByssheShelley's"LaonandCythna."
11.Iamfreeverse.
Forexample:"IhearAmericasinging,thevariedcarolsIhear,
Thoseofmechanics,eachonesinginghisasitshouldbeblitheandstrong,
Thecarpentersinginghisashemeasureshisplankorbeam..."
WaltWhitman,"IHearAmericaSinging"

12.Iamahaiku.
Forexample:"Agiantfirefly:
thatway,thisway,thatway,this
anditpassesby."
Issa

13.Iamanidyll.
Forexample:AlfredLordTennyson's"IdyllsoftheKing."

14.Iamametaphor.
Forexample:"Theforcethatthroughthegreenfusedrivestheflower
Drivesmygreenage;thatblaststherootsoftrees
Ismydestroyer.
AndIamdumbtotellthecrookedrose
Myyouthisbentbythesamewintryfever."
DylanThomas,"Theforcethatthroughthegreenfusedrivestheflower"

15.Iammeter.

16.Iamanode.
Forexample:JohnKeats'"OdeonaGrecianUrn."

17.Iamonomatopoeia.
Forexample:Pop,sizzle,andzip.

18.Iamasimile.
Forexample:"Oh,myloveislikeared,redrose
That'snewlysprunginJune
Oh,myloveislikeamelody
That'ssweetlyplayedintune"
RobertBurns,"Oh,myloveislikeared,redrose"

19.Iamasonnet.
Forexample:Shakespeare'ssonnets.

20.Iamverse.

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