Poetry Terms Quiz 241 (20 MCQs)

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1. What are groups of lines in a poem called?
2. Match the definition with the correct vocabulary word. When the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of ONLY one character.
3. The voice of the story or the narrorator
4. What type of figurative language in this stanza? "Hear the loud alarum bells-Brazen Bells!What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!"- "The Bells, " Edgar Allan Poe
5. ..... sonnet is rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde
6. There was a young lady of Nice, Who insisted on bathing in grease.She slid through the houseTormenting her spouseTil he hid in the oven for peace.This is an example of-
7. Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme
8. Bitter or cutting speech, said with the intention to hurt someone's feelings
9. Based on photos submitted on picture day, there are ..... students in the freshman class.
10. A break or punctuation used to emphasize meaning. Usually this is the period or comma at the end of a line
11. The person who is understood to be speaking (or thinking or writing) a particular work.
12. Which two types of figurative langauge is represented in line 4 of the poem?How much will you pay for an extra dayThe clockman asked the child.Not one penny. the answer cameFor my days are as many as smiles.
13. Literal meaning of a word
14. The repetition of the BEGINNING sound.
15. "Enthusiastic, gloomy, optimistic, cheerful, sarcastic, humorous, indignant, illuminating, admiring" are all examples of:
16. A prose poem is distinguished by what structural quality?
17. Epigraph
18. A close repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables
19. Which of the following compares two things using like or as?
20. The theme of "Harlem" by Langston Hughes is