Poetry Terms Quiz 274 (20 MCQs)

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1. A reference to a famous person, place, event, or piece of literature is called a(n) .....
2. What is the RHYME SCHEME of this poem? ..... Roses are red, We have the FLU.I can't smell anything And neither can YOU
3. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem below? Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
4. What is the purpose of "I, Too, " by Langston Hughes?
5. The narrator of a poem (not always the poet)
6. To put something into your own words; short and concise.
7. Used instead of sentences; rows of words in a poem
8. Giving human qualities to a non-human noun. "The old car coughed and sputtered."
9. There is a direct statement of the similarity between two items, through theuse of such words as like or as
10. Wordplay that uses homonyms (two different words that are spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time. "A bicycle can't stand on its own because it's two-tired." Dad jokes are often punny.
11. Use of words that imitate sound
12. 'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roaris an example of .....
13. I feel blue today (blue = sad)
14. A literary device which reveals concealed or contradictory meanings
15. What is the following statement an example of? The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.
16. A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or entire line is restated
17. A humorous verse form of 5 lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
18. The pattern of a poem
19. A figure of speech that suggests a similarity between two different things (usually using "like" or "as")is called
20. Unconnected