Test: poetry terms - 20 Questions

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  1. irony
  2. onomatopoeia
  3. narrative poem
  4. denotation
  5. conceit
  1. a a contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what really happens.
  2. b the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning
  3. c the literal or dictionary meaning of a word
  4. d a poem that tells a story
  5. e a kind of developed metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. a poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual
  2. a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms
  3. discrepancy between what is said and what is meant
  4. a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry, measure of the rhythm of a poetic line
  5. rhymes that occur within lines of a poem

5 True/False Question

  1. dramatic monologue → kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one listener or more whose replies are not given in the poem

          

  2. speaker → persona or person speaking in the poem

          

  3. sonnet → six line stanza

          

  4. sestet → fourteen line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter

          

  5. mood → feeling created in the reader by the literary work

          

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