Test: Poetry Terms - 20 Questions

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5 Matching Questions

  1. refrain
  2. onomatopoeia
  3. personification
  4. meter
  5. connotation
  1. a the repetition of one or more phrases or lines at intervals in a poem
  2. b giving an animal or inanimate object human qualities or emotions
  3. c the recurrence of a rhythmic pattern in poetry
  4. d the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning
  5. e the attitudes and feelings associated with a word

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. a poem of high seriousness written on a variety of topics
  2. two lines of verse that rhyme a-a
  3. concrete details which appeal to the senses so that we can see or sense what is being written about
  4. a humorous verse of five lines
  5. a poem that has not been deliberately composed but discovered, by chance, in some other context

5 True/False Question

  1. ballad → a poem that states a poet's sadness about the death of an important person

          

  2. elegy → a poem that states a poet's sadness about the death of an important person

          

  3. diction → comparing two things using "like" or "as"

          

  4. verse → a unit of poetry such as a stanza or a line

          

  5. sonnet → a poem of high seriousness written on a variety of topics

          

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