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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 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        
2. Poetry Terms:
 What kind of a rhyme this word pair would make? eating // feeding
       Masculine Rhyme        
       Rising Meter        
       Litote        
       Feminine Rhyme        
       Metonymy        
3. 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        
4. 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        
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:
 "*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 Poe's repetition of vowels called in "Volume of forgotten lore" from Raven?
       Dissonance        
       Onomatopoeia        
       Assonance        
       Accent        
       Consonance        
8. 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        
9. 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        
10. 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        
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