Poetry Terms Quiz 275 (20 MCQs)

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1. Descriptive words that use the 5 senses to create a picture
2. The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of poetry
3. Language and description that appeals to the five senses.
4. It is going to rain tomorrow.
5. The implied listener in a poem is the
6. Anything that stands for or represents something else
7. Workers who move scenery or handle props in a theatrical production
8. By saying, "she is a walking dictionary" you would be using a .....
9. The arrangement of words; lines may or may not be sentences
10. Referring to someone's house as a "shack" would have a ..... connotation.
11. A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming.
12. Visually descriptive
13. Four-line stanzas, that echo the simple rhythms of church hymns.
14. A point in the poem when it's meaning or tone turns in a new, significant way
15. Humorous
16. The baby was like an octopus, pulling all the socks off the rack at the store. What is the meaning of the simile above?
17. What figurative language gives human qualities or traits to an animal or object?
18. "Her heart is like gold, " is an example of what?
19. To which of the five senses does the following sentence or phrase appeal? As I walked through the scary house, I felt something hairy crawling up my arm.
20. A words that imitates the sound it represents