Poetry Terms Quiz 216 (20 MCQs)

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1. A sonnets consists of how many lines?
2. A group of lines in a poem; analogous to a paragraph in prose writing.
3. Exclamation; character speaks directly to someone who is not present, dead, or inanimate (object)
4. I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. What is the rhyme scheme?
5. The way a word feels (societal feeling)
6. What is a poem that has no regular pattern or rhyme or rhythm called?
7. The sunflowers nodded in the wind.
8. Gives human traits to something that is not living
9. In poetry, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning. This is also called a run-on line
10. What is the tone? "I come here with my injuryTo see your injury.From here on, I fight against what I canAnd what I can't."
11. A poet writes with a certain attitude or tone and makes the reader sense a certain feeling or .....
12. What is similar to the chorus of a song (the part repeated)?
13. Any person, place, or thing which has meaning in itself but which is made to stand for something else.
14. ..... is a person who write poetry.
15. Giving human or living qualities to nonhuman or nonliving things
16. The use of words and phrases that convey how things look, feel, smell, sound and taste.
17. On the beautiful summer night, the trees danced in the breeze is an example of .....
18. The pattern of rhyming in a poem; usually identified by assigning letters to each line (ABAA, or ABAB)
19. Two qualities that are normally considered impossible to exist together:
20. Personification is when