Poetry Terms Quiz 167 (20 MCQs)

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1. Door, lore, s'more, bore, are examples of what?
2. "As she walked into the dark forest, she could hear the leaves crunching under her feet and smell the dark, damp dirt." (This writing has ..... in it that helps the reader visualize the scene.
3. This is another word for the fixed number of lines making up separate sections of a poem
4. The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant ie using blood for "life"
5. How many verses are in this poem?The animal I really digAbove all others is the pig.Pigs are noble, pigs are clever, Pigs are courteous, however,
6. This is a term for giving something else a meaning beyond what it usually holds
7. Move or change that is often indicated by the use of stanza shift or words such as but/however
8. What is a technique by which a writer deliberately suggest two or more different, and sometimes conflicting meanings in a work.
9. Strict
10. The words or phrases that a poet wrote onto one line
11. Literary devices
12. A group of lines within a poem similar to a paragraph
13. 4 or more lines in a poem similar to a paragraph
14. I was supposed to be doing my homework, but I got off track when I saw my favorite show was on TV. What is the literary term?
15. ..... is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words such as cat and hat.
16. A lyric poem celebrating a person, important event, or idea.
17. A story/narrative in a poetic form.
18. Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images
19. In the cartoon on page 552 of the text, the main character is an expert in something. What?
20. Which type of figurative language uses like or as to make a comparison?