Poetry Terms Quiz 398 (20 MCQs)

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1. "Two people for the price of one" Mr. Yao joked.Add the comma.
2. What is this an example of: "I think that I shall never see/ a poem as lovely as a tree"
3. Lyric poem on a serious subject, usually written in a precise structure.
4. A four-lined stanza
5. A comparison that gives human qualities to an object, animal, or idea
6. A comparison between two different things using like or as is called:
7. The attitude of the speaker or poet toward the subject of the poem or toward the reader
8. A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme
9. Is a poem where the first letter of each line is the subsequent letter of the alphabet.
10. The rhythm created by the stressed and unstressed pattern of syllables.
11. The author/ writer of text not always the speaker of the poem
12. A sentence or writing becomes ambiguous when:
13. What is the term for a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?
14. When you gonna earn that pay When you gonna play that song and make my day The pattern of the END rhyme is also called the .....
15. Stanza with 3 lines
16. Japanese verse, three lines and 17 syllables
17. The use of the word 'worshipped implies that the narrator thinks she see's him as:
18. Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants.
19. Spondaic meter
20. An ode is meant to