Poetry Terms Quiz 312 (20 MCQs)

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1. The musical sound of a poem
2. A type of literature that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions
3. What poetic device is this an example of?"I watched Deaf men and women of all ages / dance in unison to the vibrations / of speakers booming so loud"
4. The person telling or relating a poem is called-
5. A poem that does not have a set rhythm, set line length, or set rhyme scheme
6. This is when the last word in a line will be echoed by a word at the beginning or in the middle of another line.
7. A way to analyze poetry that looks at the surface, intention, feelings, and technique is
8. I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.The above stanza has what three things?
9. Poems shaped like their subjects
10. Rhyming that occurs within one line of poetry
11. A word inside a line of poetry rhymes with another word in the same line
12. Using the word childish versus youthful. They both have the same definition in the dictionary but we get a different "feel" from each word. This "feel" is an example of:
13. A comparison made using the words "like" or "as"
14. A repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words
15. Poetic Foot:
16. What is the purpose of concrete poetry?
17. Life is a highway.
18. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse, is an example of what?
19. A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art outside of the text itself.
20. Which of these is a metaphor?