Poetry Vocabulary Question Preview (ID: 32609)


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a word that imitates the sound it represents
a) metaphor
b) concrete
c) consonance
d) onomatopoeia

a common, often used expression that doesn't actually mean what is says
a) haiku
b) form
c) simile
d) idiom

a poem that does not have a distinct rhyme scheme or mete
a) refrain
b) free verse
c) meter
d) rhyme

groups of lines in poetry
a) tone
b) haiku
c) lines
d) stanzas

a poem that tells a story
a) refrain
b) simile
c) rhythm
d) narrative

the way a poem looks on a page
a) rhyme
b) tone
c) form
d) lyric

repetition of sounds at the ends of words
a) tone
b) form
c) rhythm
d) rhyme

the writer's attitude toward his readers and his subject
a) lines
b) tone
c) rhyme
d) form

description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell touch, taste)
a) imagery
b) meter
c) simile
d) poetry

a short poem consisting of five lines with twenty-two syllables
a) refrain
b) concrete
c) lines
d) cinquain

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
a) meter
b) rhythm
c) idiom
d) rhyme

poem in the shape of what it is about
a) cinquain
b) concrete
c) tone
d) lines

exaggeration
a) hyperbole
b) meter
c) symbolism
d) simile

repetition of consonant sounds within a line of poetry
a) concrete
b) consonance
c) assonance
d) cinquain

a brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone
a) idiom
b) epitaph
c) metaphor
d) meter

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
a) narrative
b) alliteration
c) repetition
d) limerick

a comparison without using like or as
a) epitaph
b) meter
c) metaphor
d) simile

repeating words or phrases
a) alliteration
b) repetition
c) refrain
d) epitaph

Japanese form of poetry, three lines
a) idiom
b) rhythm
c) haiku
d) meter

the way that poets arrange words
a) meter
b) lines
c) tone
d) lyric

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