Test: FIS Grade 8 Poetry Terms - 20 Questions

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  1. sonnet
  2. assonance
  3. symbol
  4. figurative language
  5. enjambment
  1. a a fourteen-line poem, often written in iambic pentameter.
  2. b the continuation of the sense of grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next.
  3. c anything that stands for or represents something else; concrete objects that represent abstract ideas.
  4. d the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
  5. e using words to mean something other than their literal (or factual) meaning.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. a black bat night
  2. "I've got a million things to do!"
  3. the repetition of sounds at the end of words.
  4. a songlike poem that tells a story, often one dealing with adventure and romance.
  5. the arrangement of materials within a poem; the relationship of the parts of a poem to the whole; the logical divisions of a poem.

5 True/False Question

  1. couplet → a fourteen-line poem, often written in iambic pentameter.

          

  2. end-stopped → the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning.

          

  3. stanza → a group of lines in a poem, considered as a unit; like paragraphs in prose

          

  4. alliteration → a story told in verse (poetic form). It often possesses the elements of fiction, such as characters, conflict, and plot.

          

  5. metaphor → a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. It works by pointing out a similarity between two things.

          

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