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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 line break?
       Putting in several spaces or tabs between words on a line        
       The end of a line in a poem        
       An unruly line in a poem different from the other lines in subject, tone, or structure        
       The place in a line where the subject of the poem changes direction        
       A punctuation mark inside a line        
2. Poetry Terms:
 What is Poe's repetition of vowels called in "Volume of forgotten lore" from Raven?
       Dissonance        
       Onomatopoeia        
       Assonance        
       Accent        
       Consonance        
3. 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        
4. Poetry Terms:
 What is assonance?
       Repetition of vowel sounds in different but closely placed words        
       Repetition of the same name in the beginning of each stanza        
       Repetition of assurances in different but closely placed lines        
       Another word for alliteration        
       Repetiton of the same phrase in the beginning of consecutive lines        
5. Poetry Terms:
 Unrhymed iambic pentameter, which is a type of meter in poetry, and there are five iambs to a line. What is this called?
       Masculine Rhyme        
       Blank Verse        
       Enallage        
       Alexandrine        
       Synecdoche        
6. Poetry terms:
 "*Once in a life, they tell us, // and once only,* *So great a thing as a great love may come--* *To crown us, // or to mark us with a scar *No craft or custom shall obliterate"* From Roman Bartholow by Edwin Arlington Robinson---- What is the pause called, which falls naturally within a line of verse and is sometimes designated by a mark like // in scansion?
       Alexandrine        
       Caesura        
       Metaphor        
       Anaphora        
       Apostrophe        
7. 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        
8. Poetry and Writing Term:
 What is the term for the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word?
       Catachresis        
       Oxymoron        
       Enallage        
       Denotation        
       Solecism        
9. Poetry Terms:
 What is the figure of speech that uses exaggeration called, as the one John Donne used in the following lines? "Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, "
       Masculine Rhyme        
       Hyperbole        
       Litote        
       Anaphora        
       Apostrophe        
10. 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        
How'd you do? Click below for your results:
          
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