Poetry Terms Quiz 202 (20 MCQs)

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1. When a writer describes an object as if it were a person
2. A person who writes poems
3. Which word means "the narrative voice in a poem that speaks of his or her situation or feelings" ?
4. What doesn't have rhyme, but uses iambic pentameter
5. All the world's a stage(William Shakespeare, As You Like It) Death is the broomI take in my handsTo sweep the world clean.(Langston Hughes, "War" )
6. A unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. It is also called a foot. Each foot has a certain number of syllables in it, usually two or three syllables.
7. The feeling that a poem creates in the reader.
8. Trochee
9. A piece of writing that usually has figurative language and is written in separate lines which often have a repeated rhythm and sometimes rhyme.
10. The sound of poetry; how it is supposed to be said.
11. Regular pattern of rhyme, normally charted with letters of the alphabet
12. Long poem written in stanzas of varying length, meter, and form; usually serious, but can be lighthearted
13. A Haiku has five of these and a Sonnet has 14. What are they?
14. Which of the following is a euphemism for LYING
15. Verse meaning is.....
16. What is a Personification?
17. An oxymoron is a figure of speech that uses self contradictory terms back to back.
18. A quatrain consists of .....
19. (Similar to the chorus in a song)
20. Two rhyming lines