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How well do you know the poetic language? Test yourself with 10 questions at each try.

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          Like most living things, poetry has a language with special terms of its own.

         Sometimes, we receive reviews for our poems including some poetry terms.

         Sometimes, when we read a poem, we want recognize poetic devices the poet uses.

         Sometimes, we want to write poems using the poetic devices.

         All in these cases, knowing the terms enhances our appreciation of poetry.

         Here is a fun quiz to see how well you remember some of the terms of poetry.

          This quiz has a lot of questions. You may take it as many times as you wish. Each time you take it, it is possible to encounter different questions.

Good Luck!

1. Poetry Terms:
 "Others will enter the gates of the ferry, and cross from shore to shore; Others will watch the run of the flood-tide; Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east; Others will see the islands large and small;" Walt Whitman in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" repeats the word "Others" in the beginnings of his lines. What is the name of the poetic device he has used?
       Masculine Rhyme        
       Hyperbole        
       Enallage        
       Feminine Rhyme        
       Anaphora        
2. Poetry Terms:
 What is an octave or an octet in poetry?
       Olfactory imagery        
       A poem to be set to music        
       A stanza of eight lines        
       Four stanzas in syllabic verse        
       Name given to dramatic monologue        
3. Poetry Terms:
 What is an envoi or envoy?
       Short verse sent to one's beloved        
       A line of three syllables        
       The visual content of a stanza        
       The terminal syllable at the end of a stanza        
       A half stanza at the end of some French forms like sestina        
4. Poetry Terms:
 What is a pause or break in a line of poetry (sometimes but not always, a mark like a question mark or //), usually near the middle of the line called?
       Caesura        
       Euphony        
       Falling Meter        
       Hyperbole        
       Feminine rhyme        
5. Poetry Terms:
 What is accentual verse?
       Measure of the length of a stanza for example 4 lines, 6 lines, or 7 lines        
       A rhyme scheme with strict end rhymes        
       A rhymed couplet following a stanza        
       Verse in which only the accents or stresses are counted for meter        
       Free verse containing internal rhymes        
6. Poetry Terms:
 What is the name of the poetic device when a poet directly addresses an absent person, place or an abstraction as in the following example? "Hail to thee, blithe spirit!/ Bird thou never wert…" --"To a Skylark" by Percy B. Shelley--
       Apostrophe        
       Falling Meter        
       Alliteration        
       Enallage        
       Foreshadowing        
7. Poetry Terms:
 What is the term for two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem?
       Ellipsis        
       Poulter's measure        
       Dub poetry        
       Stichomythia        
       Foot        
8. Poetry Terms:
 What is the word that describes the process of analyzing a poem's meter? This is usually done by marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line and then, based on the pattern of the stresses, dividing the line into feet.
       Refrain        
       Scansion        
       Trochee        
       Stichic        
       Connotation        
9. Poetry Terms:
 What is Poe's repetition of vowels called in "Volume of forgotten lore" from Raven?
       Dissonance        
       Onomatopoeia        
       Assonance        
       Accent        
       Consonance        
10. Poetry Terms:
 What is the figure of speech that brings together words with opposing meanings? Shakespeare did that in Romeo and Juliet with "sweet" and "sorrow" in "Parting is such sweet sorrow."
       Metaphor        
       Oxymoron        
       Hyperbole        
       Enallage        
       Allusion        
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