Poetry Terms Quiz 193 (20 MCQs)

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1. Words spelled like they sound
2. Using the same word or phrase more than once for emphasis is .....
3. "An old silent pond ..... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again." What type of poem is shown above?
4. When abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions
5. Feeling of a literary work
6. Ballad stanza
7. When words mean exactly what they say
8. An open form of poetry which does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.
9. Who or what the poem is about.
10. Poetry that has a plot, characters, and tells a story is called .....
11. Which type of writing is written in stanzas?
12. Match the word to the definition:the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words
13. A lyric poem of fourteen lines commonly written in iambic pentameter.
14. The attitude that the AUTHOR has towards a subject is
15. The use of a word, phrase, or line more than once.
16. What is the voice of who's telling the poem like the narrator in a story?
17. When two (or more) words make the same sound at the end of the word.
18. An elegy is a poem of ..... reflection, typically for the dead.
19. ..... is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases several times to make an idea clearer and more emphatic.
20. Language that appeals to the five senses-sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch; sensory detail