Poetry Terms Quiz .com



POETRY TERMS Directions: Match the term to its description or example.

|Poetry Term |Description |

|__1. stanza |a. A writer describes the miraculous colors found in a sunset. |

|__2. auditory |b. Her hair was like gravy, running brown off her head and clumping up on her shoulders. |

|imagery | |

|__3. paradox |c. The branch scratched its angry claws into the dirt. |

|__4. sonnet |d. A writer describes the loud, blaring horn from a transfer truck. |

|__5. elegy |e. [pic] [pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |

|__6. personification |f. . “If you prick us, do we not bleed, if you tickle us, do we not laugh? |

| |If you poison us, do we not die? |

| |And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" |

| |(Shylock in William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice) |

|__7. visual imagery |g. a 14-line lyric poem |

|__8. simile |h. “For the moon never beams |

| |without bringing me dreams…” |

|__9. dramatic irony |i. A writer describes the soft texture of a kittens’s fur. |

|__10. tactile |j. The Odyssey |

|imagery | |

|__11.metaphor |k. A poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful |

|__12. rhetorical |l. The implied attitude of the writer toward the subject and caracters |

|question | |

|__13. symbol |m. A light humorous poem of five lines with the rhyme scheme of aabba |

|__14. Tone |n. “Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, |

| |Bells, bells, bells |

| |In the clamor and the clangor of the bells…” |

|__15. subject |o. Yesterday it snowed, (5) |

| |And the wind did spritely blow, (7) |

| |Keeping me inside. (5) |

|__16. epic |p. The car of two robbers is stolen while they are looting money from a bank. |

| __17. limerick |q. "You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife." |

|__18. end rhyme |r. Life is a beach. |

|__19. haiku |s. *Everyone is completely unique, just like everyone else. |

| |*What would happen if an immovable object was struck by an unstoppable |

| |force? |

| |*The light darkened our mood. |

|__20. refrain |t. a verse or section of a poem |

|__21. hyperbole |u. the topic of the poem, or what we believe the poem is about |

|__22. alliteration |v. whoosh, click, crackle, and boom |

|__23. onomatopoeia |w. In Oedipus the King, the reader knows that Oedipus himself is the murderer that he is seeking; Oedipus, Creon and |

| |Jocasta do not. |

|__24. situational |x. * I've told you a million times not to exaggerate. |

|irony |* Her brain is the size of a pea |

| |* He is older than the hills. |

|__25. repetition |y. repeated lines such as a chorus in a song |

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