Poetry Terms Quiz 341 (20 MCQs)

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1. A fourteen line lyric poem focused on a single theme.
2. Referenceto a statement, a person, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture.
3. An ..... helps people to understand something unknown by connecting it to something that is known.
4. Purpose
5. Last words of rhyme have a similar sound but not perfect rhyme
6. Giving human characteristics to something that is not human
7. Picture poem
8. The most specific or literal meaning of a word
9. Read these lines from the poem. I felt beaten splashing out to see How little garden was left to me. The poet uses these lines to show that the speaker feels-
10. Writing that brings pleasure through beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts
11. Repeating a sound, word, or phrase to create an effect.
12. Which of the following refers to a hidden, underlying meaning of a word?
13. Addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive
14. A comparison between 2 unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'
15. What type of figurative language is the following example?Miss Martin moved microwaves to Mars.
16. Which is the best example of alliteration?
17. A nineteen line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain
18. Comparing two things N0T using "like" or "as" is
19. Group of lines forming a unit in a poem, similar to paragraph in prose
20. Comparison of two unlike things without using simile words (like or as)