Poetry Terms Quiz 317 (20 MCQs)

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1. Literal definition
2. The following is an example of which sound device?ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
3. What term describes when a writer describes something by comparing it with something else?
4. Writer's attitude toward his or her audience or subject
5. What word refers to words whose sounds suggest their meaning?
6. Giving human characteristics to animals, objects, or ideas.
7. Poem in praise of a person, object, or event. Modern versions of this poem have multiple stanzas with 10 lines each, typically consisting of three to five stanzas. They use the rhyme scheme ABAB-CDECDE in each stanza.
8. A point where the piece takes a different route in rhyme, topic, tone, subject .....
9. "We may not save the plain cake for later." This is an example of:
10. 'Their love outshone even that of Romeo and Juliets' is an example of .....
11. One of the divisions of a poem, usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines (kind of like a paragraph in prose)
12. Did you know that not all deserts arehot? Both hot and cold deserts are verydry, but unlike hot deserts, cold deserts have longwinters when the temperatures can reach belowfreezing. Cold deserts also get a great deal ofsnow, which is certainly not true for hot deserts.
13. What is Lyric
14. A short poem with three lines and a 5-7-5 syllable pattern is called a?
15. What is a comparison using the words like or as?
16. Author uses words that appeal to senses (sight, touch, smell, sound, taste)
17. What is a group of lines in a poem called ("paragraph")?
18. Message or universal understanding that the poem explores
19. "Muggles" belong in which book/movie series?
20. Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme is an example of what?