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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 and Writing Term:
 What is the term for the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word?
       Catachresis        
       Oxymoron        
       Enallage        
       Denotation        
       Solecism        
2. 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        
3. Poetry Terms:
 Note that in the quote are associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional suggestions related to that word, such as the cat and other attributes related to a cat in "Fog" by Carl Sandburg.------- "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on." --- What is this poetic device called that clusters related meanings around the meaning of one word?
       Metaphor        
       Oxymoron        
       Assonance        
       Allusion        
       Connotation        
4. 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        
5. 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        
6. 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        
7. 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        
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 an invocation?
       The carrying over of one line into the next without any grammatical break        
       An adressing of a god or goddess usually in the beginning of an epic poem        
       A poem of loss, lamentation, regret, and sorrow        
       A poem that is a journal of the poet's daily activities ending in an epiphany        
       A half stanza concluding some French forms        
10. Poetry Terms:
 What is the poetic term for word pictures?
       Catachresis        
       Simile        
       Imagery        
       Allusion        
       Foreshadowing        
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