1. Poetry Term Quiz Review!

2. Poetry that tells a story. Like fiction the poem contains characters, setting, and plot.

3. Answer: Narrative Poem

4. Question: Makes a comparison between two unlike things without like or as??

5. Answer: Metaphor

6. Question: Exaggeration used for effect?

7. Answer: Hyperbole

8. Question: Make a comparison between two unlike things using like or as?

9. Answer: Similie

10. Question: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the words?

11. Answer: Alliteration

12. Question? A technique in which a sound, word, phrase or line is repeated for emphasis or unity??

13. Answer Repetition

14. Question? Language beyond the literal meanings of the words?

15. Answer? Figurative Language

16. Question? Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure/verse form

17. Answer Prose

18. Question A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature.

19. Answer Allusion

20. Question Poem that refers to the social conditions that inspired or influenced the creation. To understand or appreciate certain works, the reader must relate them to particular events?

21. Answer Historical Context

22. Question? Descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experience for the reader?

23. Answer Imagery

24. Question? A group of lines (2 or more) forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem?

25. Answer: Stanza

26. Question? A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter?

27. Answer Genre

28. Question A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group?

29. Answer: Dialect

30. Question Two lines of a verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, forming a unit; a rhymed pair of lines?

31. Answer: Couplet

32. Question? Express the writer’s attitude towards his or her subject?

33. Answer: Tone

34. Question Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter?

35. Answer Free Verse

36. Question Literary work in which a special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; words are carefully chosen and arranged to create certain effects?

37. Answer Poetry

38. Question A long narrative poem on a serious subject – adventures of a great hero and addresses universal concerns: good & evil/ life & death/ sin & redemption

39. Answer Epic

40. Question A figure of speech that compares to essentially unlike things at some length and/or in several ways.

41. Answer Extended metaphor