Poetry Terms Quiz 415 (20 MCQs)

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1. Marjorie is as quiet as a mouse
2. A funny poem with 5 lines.
3. What is this an example of: "To Tony's Pizza I went / Many dollars I spent."
4. Exaggerating something more than it is.
5. The race car driver got a ticket for driving too slowly on the freeway. This is an example of .....
6. The "beat" or the regular pattern of sounds found in some poems
7. A group of words arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than the right-hand margin.
8. Stanza of 4 lines with alternating rhymes
9. Poetry that doesn't have any regular meter or rhyme scheme
10. The band played as loud as a sonic boom.
11. A line of poetry ending in a full pause, usually indicated with a period or semicolon.
12. The main idea expressed in a literary work.
13. The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject
14. A group of lines in poetry that appear together, separated from other lines
15. Flag-Freedom; Red rose-Love. These are examples of a what?
16. A poem that features some kind of list
17. Two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable ..... like the word "underneath ..... is called:
18. A type of poetry that presents the thoughts and feelings of a speaker. Most poems, other than narrative poems, are lyric poems. They can cover a variety of subjects:love, death, everyday experiences
19. Similar to alliteration EXCEPT:repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words, not just at the beginning!
20. What is the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects?