Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms

12th Grade

22 Qs

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Poetry Terms

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Assessment

Quiz

English

12th Grade

Easy

Created by

HEATHER STRINGHAM

Used 11+ times

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22 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_____ Alliteration

A. The use of a word whose sound suggests or imitates its meaning

B. The writer or speaker's choice of words, depending on the audience

C. The running on of thought from one line to the next without a syntactical break

D. Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a line of poetry.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_____ Apostrophe

A. The use of a word whose sound suggests or imitates its meaning

B. The writer or speaker's choice of words, depending on the audience

C. A poetic device used to address absent or nonliving objects as if they were present or alive.

D. Repeated consonant sounds within the words of a line of poetry

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_____ Assonance

A. The use of a word whose sound suggests or imitates its meaning

B. The writer or speaker's choice of words, depending on the audience

C. Repetition of similar vowel sounds in words that are close together in a poem.

D. Repeated consonant sounds within the words of a line of poetry

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_____ Caesura

A. a pause within a line of poetry.

B. The writer or speaker's choice of words, depending on the audience

C. The running on of thought from one line to the next without a syntactical break

D. Repeated consonant sounds within the words of a line of poetry

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_____ Conceit

A. a pause within a line of poetry

B. a play on multiple meanings of a word; two words that sound alike but different meanings.

C. the pattern of rhymes in a poem

D. an extended metaphor that makes a complex comparison

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_____ Connotation

A. a play on multiple meanings of a word; two words that sound alike but different meanings

B. the implied or suggested meanings of a word

C. the pattern of rhymes in a poem

D. an extended metaphor that makes a complex comparison.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_____ Consonance

A. The use of a word whose sound suggests or imitates its meaning

B. The writer or speaker's choice of words, depending on the audience

C. The running on of thought from one line to the next without a syntactical break

D. Repeated consonant sounds within the words of a line of poetry

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