Poetic Techniques - Year 8 Corpus Christi Catholic High School
This quiz will test your pre knowledge for our poetry unit.
- 1.What is Prose
- A.
Writing with paragraphs
- B.
Writing with lines and stanzas
- C.
Group of lines (similar to a paragraph)
- D.
The feeling you get when you recite poetry
- 2.The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words within the same line of a poem is an example of
- A.
Metaphor
- B.
Allusion
- C.
Alliteration
- D.
Rhyme
- 3.A rhetorical device were a speaker of the poem addresses a non-human or innanimate object as if it can hear him or her, but expects no reply in return.
- A.
Consonance
- B.
Apostrophe
- C.
Imagery
- D.
Meter
- 4.An intended extreme exaggeration.
- A.
Free Verse
- B.
Simile
- C.
Assonance
- D.
Hyperbole
- 5.A situation in which what is expected to happen contradicts what actually happens.
- A.
Sonnet
- B.
Couplet
- C.
Blank Verse
- D.
Irony
- 6.2 rhyming words that are in 2 lines consecutively and rhyme.
- A.
Couplet
- B.
Simile
- C.
Onomatopoeia
- D.
Inversion
- 7.The repetition of vowel sounds within the same line of a poem.
- A.
Assonance
- B.
Extended Metaphor
- C.
Imagery
- D.
Meter
- 8.A figure of speech in which a direct comparison is made between 2 unlike subjects.
- A.
Metaphor
- B.
Simile
- C.
Personification
- D.
Inversion
- 9.A situation in which what is expected to happen contradicts what actually happens.
- A.
Verbal Irony
- B.
Situational Irony
- C.
Internal Rhyme
- D.
Sonnet
- 10.A group of lines in a poem that contain the same thematic idea, meter, or rhyme pattern.
- A.
Verbal Irony
- B.
Symbol
- C.
Stanza
- D.
Blank Verse
- 11.The repetition of consonant sounds within words in the same line of a poem.
- A.
Simile
- B.
Consonance
- C.
Symbol
- D.
Sonnet
- 12.A writer's attitude toward the subject which he or she is writing.
- A.
Symbol
- B.
Irony
- C.
Tone
- D.
Situational Irony
- 13.A figure of speech in which "like" or "as" is used to compare unlike subjects.
- A.
Imagery
- B.
Personification
- C.
Simile
- D.
Meter
- 14.A 14 line poem usually written in rhymed iambic parameter that usually has a theme surrounding some type of love.
- A.
Free Verse
- B.
Couplet
- C.
Shakespearean
- D.
Sonnet
- 15.Use of descriptive words and phrases that appeal to the five senses
- A.
Rhyme Scheme
- B.
Inversion
- C.
Imagery
- D.
Free Verse
- 16.A line of poetry where the rhyme occurs inside the line.
- A.
Free Verse
- B.
Blank Verse
- C.
Stanza
- D.
Internal Rhyme
- 17.The rhythmical patterns or beat in a line of poetry
- A.
Inversion
- B.
End Rhyme
- C.
Meter
- D.
Assonance
- 18.A figure of speech in which a comparison of two unlike things is developed througout several lines of a poem.
- A.
Extended Metaphor
- B.
Meter
- C.
Free Verse
- D.
Blank Verse
- 19.A figure of speech in which a comparison of two unlike things is hinted at indirectly.
- A.
Alliteration
- B.
Implied Metaphor
- C.
Simile
- D.
Consonance
- 20.The words at the end of a line that rhymes.
- A.
Rhyme Scheme
- B.
Meter
- C.
Inversion
- D.
End Rhyme
- 21.A form of poetry without any rhyme or meter.
- A.
Allusion
- B.
Hyperbole
- C.
Free Verse
- D.
Blank Verse
- 22.A sound device in which the spelling of the word demonstrates the actual sound it is intended to make
- A.
Allusion
- B.
Personification
- C.
Meter
- D.
Onomatopoeia
- 23.A person or object that represents another object or idea.
- A.
Imagery
- B.
Symbol
- C.
Internal Rhyme
- D.
Couplet
- 24.What is spoken is different from what is meant
- A.
Situational Irony
- B.
Sonnet
- C.
Verbal Irony
- D.
Internal Rhyme
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