Poetry Terms Quiz 222 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following words completes the rhyme:grade, maid, spade, fade
2. The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ..... of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
3. The act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again.
4. Poetry not written in rhythmical pattern or meter.
5. The use of words that sound like what they mean: "I heard a fly buzz"
6. What is metaphor?
7. ..... compares two or more things by implying that one thing is another. It does not use like or as.
8. Slippery, smooth silk slipped through Sarah's slender fingers
9. Which of the following is not an example of figurative language used to make comparisons?
10. The recurring elements of fire and mockingjay in The Hunger Games are examples of .....
11. ..... can be defined as: "A pattern of end rhymes in a poem"
12. A Narrative Poem that appears in the form of an extended metaphor.
13. The wind was loud, but very calm.It whirled around, like a tornadonot slowing the slightest bit. How many lines are in this poem?
14. Extreme hunger, starvation
15. The speaker is ..... the same person as the author
16. A person, place, object, animal, or activity that stands for something beyond itself
17. The voice that speaks behind the scene. It is the narrative voice that speaks of a writer's feelings or situation. This would be the:
18. What is going beyond the ordinary meaning of words in order to achieve an effect or express an idea by using metaphors, similes, irony, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia?
19. When the poet conveys meaning by creating a metaphor that lasts the entire poem.
20. Combines two terms that are normally contradictory. An example:Living dead, pretty ugly