Poetry Terms Quiz 410 (20 MCQs)

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1. A form of poetry that tells a story
2. Denotation is .....
3. A sad or thoughtful poem, often lamenting someone's death
4. A type of poetry that includes 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second 7, the third 5 syllables.
5. What type of figurative language is the following? "I am the dream and the hope of the slave."
6. Two consecutive lines that have end rhyme
7. The interpretation of a phrase(figure it out)
8. Words, phrases, or ideas in a poem that are repeated
9. Her as were as blue as the sky on a mid-summer day.
10. What is the definition of a connotation?
11. The definition of the term "tone" is .....
12. A figure of speech comparing two things by stating that one thing is another thing
13. Poems are told through a voice called the
14. Direct comparison between two things (NOT using like or as)
15. Poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme
16. You are sunlight and I moon.
17. "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."
18. Which term means the use of a word, phrase, sound, or line more than once?
19. Poetry that doesn't have a set rhythm, line length, or rhyme scheme; it relies, instead, on the natural rhythms of speech; today the most widely practiced form of poetry in the English language
20. The way a sentence is structured