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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:
 What is a collage poem?
       A poem with pictures or photos pasted on the side of the page it is written on        
       A visual poem that has a specific shape with each line printed ina different color        
       A poem with words and phrases put together from several unrelated sources        
       A poem that is a journal of the poet's daily activities        
       A poem made from lists of painting supplies        
2. Poetry Terms:
 What is conceit?
       Making fun of a public figure in the first part of an epic        
       Writing a poem with an archaic diction        
       Writing free verse with lines haphazardly turning over        
       Comparing two extremely dissimilar things like the sun to a worm        
       The build up of parallel lines to create emotion        
3. 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        
4. Poetry Terms:
 "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe" Lewis Carroll makes use of what device in 'Jabberwocky' by using unpleasant sounds created by clashing consonants?
       Anacrusis        
       Aposiopesis        
       Aleatory methods        
       Cacophony        
       Dissonance        
5. Poetry Terms:
 "A little month! or ere those shoes were old/ With which she followed my poor father's body…" Here, in Hamlet, Shakespeare refers to Niobe--who is the symbol of grief--while describing Queen Gertrude. What is the poetic device called when a poet refers to something with which he presumes the reader is familiar?
       Imagery        
       Oxymoron        
       Enallage        
       Alexandrine        
       Allusion        
6. Poetry Form Term:
 What is an antiphon?
       A quiet, meditative poem        
       The consecutive placement of syllables with contrasting sounds        
       A poem with words and phrases put together from several unrelated sources        
       A poem that is a journal of the poet's daily activities ending in an epiphany        
       A poem in which two voices respond to one another in alternate verses or stanzas        
7. Poetry and Writing Term:
 What is the term for the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word?
       Catachresis        
       Oxymoron        
       Enallage        
       Denotation        
       Solecism        
8. 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        
9. 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        
10. Poetry Terms:
 In this line, Emerson repeated words starting with the letter p: "The purple petals, fallen in the pool" What is the name of the poetic device he used?
       Catachresis        
       Oxymoron        
       Alliteration        
       Feminine Rhyme        
       Apostrophe        
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