Poetry Terms Quiz 238 (20 MCQs)

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1. A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in "Man proposes; God disposes."
2. A word that is formed by the sound associated with it
3. A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space, is called a .....
4. ..... is when an author repeats a word, phrase, or sentence to help create rhythm, or get across an idea, or even to maintain a certain pattern.
5. The person from whose point of view the poem is told
6. A group of lines in a poem; kind of like a paragraph
7. How the author makes the reader feel while reading a poem
8. A spondee follows which of the following patterns of stress?
9. Which term means the repetition of sounds at the end of words?
10. Which term below refers to the feelings and associations created by a word?
11. Ordinary form of spoken or written language without metrical structure (stories, articles, novels)
12. The sound of the language. Saying something in a way so as to make the poem more effective and to make more impact.
13. A stanza that has three lines.
14. Becky's beagle barked and bayed, becoming bothersome for Billy.
15. An assertion of the truth of something, typically one that is disputed or in doubt
16. A group of lines that make up a paragraph in a poem.
17. The voice that narrates the poem
18. 14 line poems in which each line is 10 syllables with a paricular rhyme scheme
19. Giving human like characteristics to nonhuman objects.
20. To which of the five senses does the following sentence or phrase appeal? The sweet, juicy strawberries reminded me of my childhood.