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Poetry Vocab Test

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of 54 available terms

5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. alliteration
  2. quintet
  3. enjambment
  4. tetrameter
  5. verse
  1. a four feet
  2. b a metric line of poetry. It is named according to the kind and number of feet composing it: iambic pentameter, anapestic tetrameter...
  3. c the running over of a sentence or thought from one line to another
  4. d five-line stanza
  5. e the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words such as "rough and ready"

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. a division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains
  2. an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable (repeat)
  3. a short verse that is intended to express the emotions of the author; often set to music
  4. a stressed followed by two unstressed syllables (openly)
  5. (closed couplet) consists of two successive rhyming lines that contain a complete thought

5 True/False Questions

  1. onomatopoeiathe use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning, as in clang, buzz, and twang


  2. octometerone foot


  3. caesuraa pause or sudden break in a line of poetry


  4. foota main division of a long poem


  5. heptameterseven feet