Poetry Terms Quiz 183 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is defined as-as the use of words with sounds that imitate or suggest their meaning?
2. When two words in the same line rhyme
3. A four line stanza is called a
4. Repeating identical consonant sounds
5. "How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath / To say to me that thou are out of breath?" This is an example of ..... or unrhymed iambic pentameter.
6. What are the structural elements of a poem?
7. What is the speaker?
8. A rhyming poem of 14 lines is called .....
9. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? We can't find the cat, We don't know where she's at, Oh, where did she go? Does anyone know? Let's ask this walking hat.
10. Which best describes a rhyme scheme?
11. Language that appeals to the senses (smell, sight, taste, touch, sound) is called .....
12. Which term means an extreme exaggeration?
13. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Creates the flow of the poem:fast, choppy or smooth.
14. The structure of a poem; how it is built
15. In the poem "Fog", the first two lines are "The fog comes on little cat feet." When a sentence is continued without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza in a poem, it is called .....
16. The measurement of rhythm in poems, measured by the number of feet in one line of poetry.
17. The shirt, so bright, I needed sunglasses to look at it.
18. Comparing two things usually by saying one is the other
19. A group of words in one row
20. The writer's attitude towards his/her subject is .....