Poetry Terms Quiz 235 (20 MCQs)

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1. Form of literary device used in poetry, creates imagery for the reader.
2. What does the following poem symbolize? An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
3. The feeling the poet creates/how the reader feels is .....
4. A genre of literature that expresses feelings, ideas, or tells a story in a specific form-using lines and stanzas
5. A stanza of four lines that has a regular rhyming pattern
6. Define "rhyme."
7. Words or phrases that are repeated
8. Give a nonhuman object human characteristics.
9. "The musical quality created by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry" is called .....
10. A poem form that does not have a regular pattern of rhythm and may not rhyme, may use unconventional punctuation, spelling, and grammar
11. An extended metaphor with complex logic or a startling comparison-takes places over an entire passage or poem
12. Which of the following is NOT an example of metaphor?
13. The refrain usually helps to emphasize the poem's .....
14. The message of the poem
15. Words that begin with the same sound are placed close together
16. Poet's message, and how is he or she communicating feelings
17. A comparison, usually something unfamiliar with something familiar.
18. A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as (saying one things IS another).
19. What type of poetry is this the definition for?Poetry with neither regular meter nor rhyme scheme.
20. Giving human characteristics to objects.