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AP Poetry Terms Test

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of 24 available terms

5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. syntax
  2. fixed form
  3. cacophony
  4. limerick
  5. organic form
  1. a takes shape and pattern from the content of poem itself
  2. b any form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition
  3. c the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
  4. d loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  5. e a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Implies or suggests the comparison between the two thing without stating it directly
  2. poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching
  3. excessive or artificial emotion, emotion unjustified by events
  4. A type of open form poetry in which the poet arranges the lines of the poem so as to create a particular shape on the page.
  5. unstressed to stressed

5 True/False Questions

  1. masculine rhymeoccurs when the rhyme ends on an unstressed syllable (i.e. "calling" and "falling")

          

  2. doggerela comic verse of irregular measure

          

  3. falling meterunstressed to stressed

          

  4. triplet3 line stanza

          

  5. euphonya brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry