Poetry Terms Quiz 108 (20 MCQs)

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1. A musical quality in language; the beat
2. What is a comparison of two different things using the word like or as?
3. What device is used here:Good as gold Busy bee Living the life
4. An extravagant exaggeration that couldn't possibly be true; used to make a point.
5. A poem with 4 lines in each stanza that follow a rhyme scheme and usually tells a story is called a .....
6. Using words to create a picture in the reader's mind.
7. What does "irony" mean?
8. The dictionary definition of a word is called the
9. Expresses the author's or poet's attitude towards his/ her subject.
10. Definition:a figure of speech that compares two different things without the words "like" or "as."
11. Choose the correct figurative language Snow White's hair is black like charcoal.
12. A struggle within a story. It can be between the protagonist and antagonist, between the protagonist and his society, or the protagonist and nature
13. What a word suggests beyond what it expresses. The feeling associated with the word.
14. Pentameter
15. A songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings
16. Capitalization, line length, and word choice is an example of which type of literary element?
17. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckleAt every step you missedMy right ear scraped a buckle The italicized words are examples of words that represent:
18. What are we commenting on when we evaluate how the poem is organised?
19. The best kinds of people stand up tall, No matter how hard they fall. The best kinds of people are honest and true. The best kind of person, my dear, is you.What technique do you notice here?
20. Poems that do not rhyme but consist of iambic pentameter