Poetry Terms Quiz 254 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the central message or idea of a poem called?
2. The "narrator" of the poem
3. The appearance of the words on the page
4. A comparison in which the poet writes about one thing as if it is something else:A = B, with the qualities of B transferred to A
5. Central idea of a work of literature
6. Which of the following details led you to choose the line you identified in question 9? 1 I wandered lonely as a cloud 2 That floats on high o'er vales and hills, 3 When all at once I saw a crowd, 4 A host, of golden daffodils; 5 Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 6 Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
7. Alliteration is defined as .....
8. A comparison between 2 or more things that are similar in some ways but otherwise unlike
9. Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
10. This is the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color.
11. A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines (like the chorus of a song)
12. Why is it important that the mask "hides cheeks and shades eyes" instead of nose, teeth, ears, etc?
13. "Lurk late ..... Sing Sin ..... Jazz June" are examples of .....
14. The repetition of initial consonant sounds:Susie sold sea shells down by the seashore.
15. The poem is told from the point of view of the .....
16. The poetic form that avoids using fixed patterns of meter or rhyme
17. A comparison of two things that does NOT use like or as
18. Words with the same ending syllables (bat, cat, rat, KitKat)
19. Repetition of sounds at the ends of words, can be at the end of the lines or within the lines
20. The author places a person, concept, place, idea, or theme parallel to another to highlight the CONTRAST between the two to compare them.