Poetry Terms Quiz 166 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a poem with a musical rhythm that often explores emotional topics like love and often uses first person?
2. Scheme
3. The comparison or juxtaposition of things that are different
4. The shape or structure of a poem; the way a poem looks on the page
5. A poem that tells a story and has characters, setting, and a plot with conflict
6. The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
7. A figure of speech in which two things are compared usually by saying one thing is another.
8. A conversation between 2 or more characters
9. Which word means a comparison of two unlike things that says one thing is another thing?
10. Line
11. How many stanzas 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.
12. An author's tone that inspires a comic atmosphere, can lead to a playful feeling in writing
13. Poetry written with a precise meter-almost always iambic pentameter-that does not rhyme
14. A 14 line poem, typically (but not exclusively) concerning the topic of love. They contain internal rhymes within their 14 lines; the exact rhyme scheme depends on the style
15. A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.
16. Unrhymed lines of ten syllables with the even-numbered syllables bearing the stress
17. Anapest or anapestic
18. One line of poetry is .....
19. Pun
20. A line of tetrameter contains this many feet: