Poetry Test

Question 0

Rhythm

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Demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables inverse form

Question 1

Poetry

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A type of literature that uses economy of language

Question 2

Stanza

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a group of lines arranged together

Question 3

Couplet

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2 line stanza

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Quatrai

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4 line stanza

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Sestet

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6 line stanza

Question 6

Octave

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8 line stanza

Question 7

Rhyme

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a repetition of similar sounding words occurring in poems

Question 8

Rhyme Scheme

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The pattern of rhymes used in a poem

Question 9

Free Verse

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Open form of poetry does not use consistent meter patterns, rhymes, or any musical pattern

Question 10

Lyric Poetry

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Expresses intense personal emotion in a manner significant of a subject

Question 11

Ode

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Poem that celebrates a subject

Question 12

narrative poetry

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poetry that tells a story

Question 13

Hyperbole

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an overexagaration

Question 14

Haiku

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Japanese poem of 17 syllables typically describing nature

Question 15

Literal

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Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphors

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Figurative

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Departing form a literal use of words

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Simile

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Comparison using like or as

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Metaphore

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Comparison not using like or as

Question 19

Symbol

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Something that stands for something else

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Personification

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Making an inanimate object alive

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech in which incongruous ot contradictory terms appear side by side

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Allusion

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Figure of speech, one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance that has occurred

Question 23

Assonance

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Repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry

Question 24

Consonance

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The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words

Question 25

Alliteration

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Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words

Question 26

Onomatopoeia

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Word describing an action

Question 27

Imagery

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Using vivid words to create an image in your mind

Question 28

Mood

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Uknown

Question 29

Tone

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The attitude of an author