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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 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        
2. Poetry Terms:
 What is synechdoche?
       A part that is used to signify the whole        
       Repetition of vowel sounds        
       Uneven meter        
       The theme of the poem        
       A badly written poem        
3. 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        
4. Poetry Terms:
 What is a repetend?
       Recycling the same line in different poems        
       A rhyme scheme with strict end rhymes        
       The irregular repetition of a word or phrase at various places in the entire poem        
       Repeated pausing after the first two words in the lines of a stanza        
       Poet's name deftly included and repeated several times in a poem        
5. Poetry and Writing Term:
 What is the term for the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word?
       Catachresis        
       Oxymoron        
       Enallage        
       Denotation        
       Solecism        
6. Poetry Terms:
 What is apocopated rhyme?
       Using the same word twice in a rhyme scheme and getting away with it        
       Another name for internal rhyme        
       A pattern of meter as in monometer, trimeter, tetrameter etc.        
       A pattern of rhyming words beginning with the same letter as in write-white        
       Rhyme with the last syllable missing as in tease-season or head-headed        
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 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        
9. Poetry Terms:
 Emily Dickinson says: "Hope is a Thing with Feathers” What is the figure of speech called here?
       Metaphor        
       Simile        
       Hyperbole        
       Alexandrine        
       Euphony        
10. 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        
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