Mcc Year 8 Poetry Quiz

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Mcc Year 8 Poetry Quiz

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.

A rhetorical device where the speaker of the poem addresses a non-human object as if it can hear him or her, but expects no reply in return.

An outrageous exaggeration used for effect.

A reference to some person, historical event, work of art, or Biblical or mythological situation or character.

A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.

An understatement, used to lessen the effect of a statement; substituting something innocuous for something that might be offensive or hurtful.

Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.

'He’s a zero.' is an example of what poetry technique?

A comparison, usually something unfamiliar with something familiar.

The emotional, psychological or social overtones of a word; its implications and associations apart from its literal meaning.

A division of a poem created by arranging the lines into a unit, often repeated in the same pattern of meter and rhyme throughout the poem; a unit of poetic lines (a “paragraph” within the poem).

A question solely for effect, which does not require an answer. By the implication the answer is obvious, it is a means of achieving an emphasis stronger than a direct statement.

The means by which a poet reveals attitudes and feelings, in the style of language or expression of thought used to develop the subject.

"Her eyes are like comets." this is an example of what technique?

A Japanese form of poetry consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables

The use of vivid language to generate ideas and/or evoke mental images, not only of the visual sense, but of sensation and emotion as well.

'Time, slime, mime,' are all words that?

'The days crept by slowly, sorrowfully.' This line is an example of what technique?

A light or humorous form of five lines in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet.

'I Hear the steady tick of the old hall clock,' This line uses what well known technique?

An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance – a flag to represent a country, a lion to represent courage.

The organization of speech stressess (verbal stresses) into a regular pattern. . Example: I THOUGHT I SAW a PUSsyCAT.

The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect. Example: I was glad; so very, very glad.

Any verse made up of unrhymed lines, all in the same meter. Example: Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

A series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word, sentence or whole section from the original text being quoted. This technique can also be used to indicate an unfinished thought or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence. Example: "But I thought he was . . ."

Poetry that expresses personal and emotional feelings; it is most commonly sung.

A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other. Example: a pointless point of view; bittersweet

The speaker/charater in the poem. This is not the author.

The method of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

Often, this type of poetry is a symbolic narrative that has not only a literal meaning, but a larger one meant to teach and is understood only after reading the entire story or poem.