Poetry Terms Quiz 142 (20 MCQs)

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1. The wind whistled through the forest:
2. The speaker felt sorry because
3. A sonnet is always 14 lines.
4. The recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses; the beat of the poem/song
5. The use of figures of speech to create vivid images that appeal to one of the senses
6. Like paragraphs are part of a story, these are part of a poem; must be at least two lines and is usually separated from other chunks of a text with a space between the lines.
7. The way a poem looks on a page.
8. Who was the famous poet that wrote Romeo and Juliet?
9. What is an example of metaphor?
10. The feeling or atmosphere that an author creates in a literary work
11. Harry Potter has a scar on his forehead. This scar symbolizes
12. The action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm.
13. ..... are words that end with the same sound (like hat and cat).
14. A real, tangible detail or example of something; opposite of abstract or general
15. EX:I have a ton of chores to do when I get home.
16. What is a synonym?
17. The speaker's attitude toward the subject is .....
18. A play that doesn't have a happy ending; ends in the death of at least one main character
19. The attitude a writer takes toward the subject.
20. A line of poetry containing eight metrical feet