Poetry Exam

His stare brought with a terror through a million billion trillion stars.

This poem talks about a "dream deferred."

Which of the following is an element of sound in poetry?

Identify the poetry element: Figurative Language - My room is my castle.

What is a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis.

Identify the poetry element: …hump of a man bunching chrystanthemums…

How many lines are in a quatrain?

A grouping of two or more lines in a poem.

"O Captain, My Captain" contains an extended ________ in which a ship returns home from battle.

What country does the Ghazal come from?

Identify the poetry element: George jumped joyfully into the jelly.

The arrangement of words and lines on a page.

What are words and phrases that appeal to the reader's five senses?

I am Samson Simpson. I’m superlatively strong. I like to carry elephants. I do it all day long.

"Blue in rubber boots" is an example of what two poetry elements?

Which of the following is NOT a type of figurative language?

There’s a guy in a tux and he stands in the corner, feeding the jukebox his dimes.

The daisy hugs the earth in August.

A poem written in reverence, especially in light of a death is called a(n) ___________.

The speaker of "lesson of the moth" is

Don’t worry about Alex. She’s all bark and no bite.

What is an exaggeration?

What is love?

The following is an example of: The five friends folded the farm.

A poem that tells a story is a ________________.

Rhyme that occurs within a single line.

Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines in my own back yard.

The title "O Captain, My Captain" is an example of ___________.

"Harlem" primarily uses comparisons called ____________ to show what what happens to that dream.

The voice that talks to the reader in a poem.