Poetry Terms Quiz 310 (20 MCQs)

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1. ..... is the pattern of stresses within a line of verse. All spoken word has a ..... formed by stressed and unstressed syllables.
2. A writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject or toward an audience
3. What is the correct definition for the following poetic devise:idioms
4. What is the definition of irony?
5. 'Then growling it slunk away' The poet is describing a hurricane. What is this an example of?
6. The use of sounds, words, or phrases or whole lines more than once in a poem; used to emphasize
7. Our feet squished in the mud.
8. An object that is used to represent an idea.
9. A comparison of two or more things without using "like" or "as" . Example:Jeannie is a fountain of knowledge.
10. A unit in poetry that consists of any words arranged in one row
11. Lamb-innocence, Dove-Peace or Eagle-America is an example of .....
12. I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
13. A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem is called a .....
14. What is a four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem referred to as?
15. A group of lines forming a unit in a poem.
16. The AUTHOR'S attitude towards a subject
17. Joan groaned in a low tone
18. "My heart's a stereo." The kind of figurative language used here is .....
19. A traditional Japanese poem about nature; three lines with a total of 17 syllables
20. A four-line stanza or poem.