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Elements of Poetry Test

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of 114 available terms

5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. Alliteration
  2. Eye Rhyme
  3. Metonymy
  4. Euphony
  5. End-stopped Line
  1. a The use of compatible, harmonious sounds to produce a pleasing, melodious effect
  2. b A line in which both the grammatical structure and the sense reach completion at the end. The opposite of enjambement
  3. c The substitution of something closely associated with an object for the object itself
  4. d The repetition of one or more initial sounds, usually consonants, in words within a line
  5. e Rhyme that appears correct from the spelling but is not from the pronunciation

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Imperfect, approximate rhyme
  2. The balancing or contrasting of one term against another
  3. Any expression so often used that its freshness and clarity have worn off. A dead metaphor
  4. A sonnet that contains three quatrains and concluding couplet in iambic pentameter, rhyming "abab cdcd efef gg" or "abba cddc efef gg"
  5. A French verse form, strictly calculated to appear simple and spontaneous, five tercets and a final quatrain, rhyming "aba aba aba aba aba abaa". Lines 1,6,12,18 and 3, 9, 15, and 19 are the refrain

5 True/False Questions

  1. Dramatic IronyPoetry that is intended primarily to teach a lesson

          

  2. Internal RhymeRhyme contained within a line of verse

          

  3. ConsonanceRepetition of two or more consonant sounds within a line

          

  4. Couplet2-lined stanza

          

  5. X-lined StanzaA complex verse form, usually unrhymed, consisting of six six-line stanzas and three-line envoy. The end-words in each stanza must be the same, though arranged in a different sequence each time. (1-2-3-4-5-6; 6-1-5-2-4-3; 3-6-4-1-2-5; etc.) The three line conclusion must use as end-words 5-3-1, and buried in each line must appear the end-words must appear 2-4-6