Poetry Terms Quiz 103 (20 MCQs)

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1. The ..... of the poem "The Poet" is the life of a poet, while the ..... of the poem is traditional:it has seven stanzas of two lines each; the lines of each stanza rhyme and each line has eight syllables.
2. A japanese poem of seventeen syllables; in three lines of five, seven, five.
3. Comparing two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as.
4. The attitude the writer takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character.
5. Characterized by formality, simplicity, and emotional restraint.
6. What is a Alliteration?
7. A reference to an historical person, place, or event.
8. ..... is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.
9. Which type of poem has no rules?
10. Words that represent a sound.
11. "We passed the fields of grazing grain" contains .....
12. A poem usually of fourteen lines and following one several sets of rhyme schemes is known as a
13. Giving human qualities or characteristics to non-living things.
14. What word means a humorous, rhyming five line poems with a specific rhyme pattern and rhyme scheme.
15. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" means
16. Metaphors, similes, & personification are all types of this .....
17. "The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle." is an example of which figurative language?
18. An exaggeration meant for effect
19. Melancholy poem that laments its subject's death.
20. A form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain with the first and the third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas