NAME: ________________________
← AP Poetry Terms Test
5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- syntax
- fixed form
- cacophony
- limerick
- organic form
- a takes shape and pattern from the content of poem itself
- b any form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition
- c the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
- d loud confusing disagreeable sounds
- e a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- Implies or suggests the comparison between the two thing without stating it directly
- poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching
- excessive or artificial emotion, emotion unjustified by events
- 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.
- unstressed to stressed
5 True/False Questions
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masculine rhyme → occurs when the rhyme ends on an unstressed syllable (i.e. "calling" and "falling")
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doggerel → a comic verse of irregular measure
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falling meter → unstressed to stressed
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triplet → 3 line stanza
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euphony → a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
Regenerate Test