Poetry Terms Quiz
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments . . ." (William Shakespeare)
The above lines are an example of:- Consonance is the repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words.
A word used to imitate a sound is known as:
- Examples of onomatopoeic words are buzz, hiss, zing, clippety-clop, cock-a-doodle-do, pop, splat, thump, and tick-tock.
"Hope is the thing with feathers—/ That perches on the soul—" (Emily Dickinson)
The above lines are an example of:- A metaphor is a figure of speech in which two things are directly compared, usually by saying one thing is another.
"Why does a boy who�s fast as a jet/ Take all day—and sometimes two—/ To get to school?" (John Ciardi)
The above lines are an example of:- Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis.
Haiku originated in:
- A haiku is a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haiku often reflect on some aspect of nature.
"World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings" (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
The above line is an example of:- Alliteration is the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words.
A type of poetry that does not require rhyme or metrical structure is called:
- Free verse is a literal translation of the French vers libre, which originated in late 19th-century France. The form is closely associated with such poets as Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and T. S. Eliot who sought greater liberty in verse structure.
All Shakespearean sonnets end with a:
- Shakepearean sonnets are composed of three quatrains (four-line rhyming stanzas) and a final rhyming couplet.
Personification is:
- Personification is a figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes.
Similes are different from metaphors in that they:
- A simile compares things using the word "like" or "as." An example of a simile using like occurs in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem": "What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?"
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