Poetry Terms Quiz 110 (20 MCQs)

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1. Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme.
2. Her eyes are as sparkly as a diamond is a
3. The lesson of the poem is that life can feel scary sometimes
4. A group of words together on one line of the poem
5. Lines that end with the same sound.
6. What is the figurative meaning of "Winter's icy grip caused people to shudder and flock back to their homes."
7. How many lines does the poem below have?It came in a winter's night, a fierce cold with quite a bite.Frosted wind with all its mightsent ice and snow an inviteto layer earth in pure whiteand glisten with morning light.
8. Giving human qualities or actions to non-human things.ex. The moon was smiling.
9. To dig deep and get a better understanding is to.....
10. A figure of speech in which a nonliving or inanimate object is given human characteristics.
11. The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a poem is known as .....
12. A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart with a line of space
13. Pairs of rhyming lines; same meter and length
14. The straightforward meanings of words
15. It is called ..... when a nonhuman object is given human characteristics.
16. A figure of speech involving exaggeration. An example:I've told you a million times.
17. A figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities. For example, "The sky looked like an artist's canvas."
18. The mail man mailed the material next month.
19. The way words are arranged on a page-how words look on paper
20. Lines with no prescribed pattern or structure-the poet determines all the variables as seems appropriate for each poem