Poetry Terms Quiz 215 (20 MCQs)

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1. The way an author writes. An author's choice of words, figurative language, rhyme, rhythm, or repetition.
2. Making a non-human object have human qualities is called ..... For example:The river tripped and skipped over the rocks on its way to the ocean.
3. "My lips are dumb" is an example of:
4. Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
5. What is the extended metaphor?
6. This is like a paragraph for a poem
7. What is the usual rhyme scheme used in Dickinson's poerty?
8. Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
9. Authoritative works of a writer & an accepted list of works perceived to represent cultural, ideological, historical etc. grouping
10. What is NOT in a Haiku poem?
11. A dove representing the idea of peace is using .....
12. "O my love is like a red, red, rose"This line is an example of everything except:
13. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas that tells a story and is meant to be sung.
14. Repeated vowel sounds in a line of poetry is called .....
15. Allthe meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to somewords, in addition to their literal dictionary definition.
16. A metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables followed by an unstressed one ( / / U )
17. A pattern of stressed syllables, or words that sound the same are called .....
18. A poem that expresses personal thoughts and feelings of a speaker; can be set to music
19. What is the following an example of? The sun smiled down on me as I walked home from school.
20. A poem that has five lines and a total of 22 syllables, distributed in a specific 2-4-6-8-2 pattern is called a .....