Poetry Terms Quiz 143 (20 MCQs)

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1. A reference to an important event, person, or object in order to elicit a response from the reader
2. Repeating words, lines, or phrases to create a feeling is .....
3. What term means the alternate pattern of rhymes?
4. Making little or light of something for effect; an understatement
5. The way a poem looks on the page is called its .....
6. Definition:regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem EX) AABBC
7. The poem is an extended metaphor. What two things is it comparing?
8. Which kind of sound device is used? "all the loveless land"
9. Language that is not meant to be interpreted literally
10. Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry; brings out the musical qualities
11. Mom Told Son a Thousand Times Drew's mom couldn't believe her eyes when she came home from the grocery store to find that her son still hadn't taken out the trash. "I must have reminded him at least a thousand times, " she said. "I told her that I would take care of it after I finished playing my video game, " Drew protested. What type of figurative language is used?
12. The words cat and bat are an example of ..... ?
13. This means that the sound of the word is like the noise of the thing itis describing:pop, boom, crash, slurp .....
14. The atmosphere, or feeling, created by the author in a poem.
15. Structural elements of Drama?
16. The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text.
17. This is the repetition of a vowel sounds, like "Aunt Annie ate alligators."
18. A pattern of stressed and unstressed beats in a poem is its .....
19. Another word for the "turn, " which occurs after the octave of an Italian Sonnet
20. The use of words that imitate the sounds they represent is called .....