Poetry Terms Quiz 133 (20 MCQs)

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1. It has only three lines, with just seventeen syllables and no rhyming.
2. Sensory language is .....
3. What is a pattern of unstressed syllables within a line of verse?
4. What is the structure of syllables in the lines of a haiku?
5. ..... occurs when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond.
6. The use of words to create a vivid mental picture or physical sensation-appeals to the readers 5 senses-sight, sound, taste, smell, or touch
7. An illustrator draws a picture of darkness around the main character. The darkness represents a problem that the character may be facing. What could this problem be?
8. The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words
9. A regular pattern of end rhyme
10. When words end with the same sounds, the words
11. A(n) ..... is when an author compares 2 unlike thinks using like, as, resembles or than.
12. A single unit in a poem; can be a word, a phrase, or a complete sentence.
13. The author's choice of words
14. Words that end the same wayExample:cat / bat / satMean / green / teen
15. A short poem usually written in first person point of view. Express an emotion or an idea or describes a scene. Do not tell a story and are often musical
16. A statement that, while apparently self-contradictory, is nonetheless essentially true.
17. Type of poem that creates a shape to suggest its subject
18. What is poetry that does not have a set rhyme pattern or meter and may not have stanzas or even lines?
19. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words is
20. This is the feeling a literary work conveys to a reader.