Poetry Terms Quiz 348 (20 MCQs)

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1. Shakespearean sonnet with a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
2. Any device that creates a picture in the reader's mind is called
3. A group of lines (similar to a paragraph) in a poem is called a .....
4. This is a word whose sound imitates its meaning, like "Buzz."
5. A type of poem that praises and celebrates its subject
6. Giving human qualities and abilities to an object or idea
7. Written and spoken language that is not poetry:sentences, paragraphs, stories, chapters, etc.
8. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there's some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.
9. A word that mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to.
10. What is the correct term for the following definition? This is language that appeals to the senses; it helps us see, smell, and feel the scene.
11. A sound device commonly associated with poetry
12. Extreme exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
13. What has no fixed rhyme but has a consistent meter
14. It was July, and the suntoasted the emerald grassuntil it smelled of warmthand green and life.It was July, and my heartsoaked up the air warmthuntil it sang of joyand love and life.How many lines does the poem have above?
15. Last night, while I lay thinking here, Some Whatifs crawled inside my earAnd pranced and partied all night longAnd sang their same old Whatif song:Whatif I'm dumb in school?Whatif they've closed the swimming pool ..... What do you notice being used here?
16. What is the purpose of using metaphors in poetry?
17. A short group of words, usually not a sentence EX: "down the road"
18. What is a poem's stanza?
19. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? Snow makes whiteness where it falls.The bushes look like popcorn balls.And places where I always play, Look like somewhere else today. By Marie Louise Allen
20. The voice that speaks the words of a poem, not necessarily the same person as the poet