Poetry Terms Quiz 289 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)?
2. What is it called when a line of verse with 5 metrical feet, each consisting a unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable?
3. The repetition of identical sounds in the last syllables of words.
4. Which poetic element is a reference to a popular person, place, story, or thing?
5. "The tea cup clinked and clanged as I put it down on the plate" is an example of:
6. Musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables
7. A comparison of two nouns saying that one thing is another
8. The ice sculptor's hands fluttered like hummingbird wings.
9. "A woman ..... can do no good but in childbirth. But a woman can do evil. She can do evil." ~~ MEDEA
10. Scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to "flash" backward and tell what happened at an earlier time
11. Giving human qualities and traits to non-human object is .....
12. The piano sang a mournful song.
13. The pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Pairs of rhyming words get labeled with the same letter of the alphabet.
14. A concrete poem is written in .....
15. A poem written in honor of someone who had died
16. Lines of poetry arranged in groups
17. How a say a word (stressed and unstressed). Is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
18. A question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer
19. The poet is
20. This term means the representation through language of sense experience