Poetry Terms Quiz 447 (20 MCQs)

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1. Given human characteristics or traits to non-human things.
2. A comparison giving human-like characteristics to a nonhuman or nonliving object.
3. Use of an object, person, place, or event that has both a meaning in itself and stands for something larger
4. "as light as a feather"What figurative language type would this be?
5. Repeated line or lines in a poem or song.
6. Kevin's shades were drawn. The room was dark and he liked it that way. After the day he had, darkness was a welcomed friend. He felt like sunshine was so far away. The writer is creating a-
7. Lines grouped together like a paragraph in a poem
8. Which type of poetry does not adhere to a specific rhyme scheme or meter?
9. A musical quality of a poem.
10. A ..... is a comparison that DOES NOT use the words "like" or "as."
11. Long narrative usually about a hero's deeds.
12. A word that mimics an actual sound
13. Metaphor, simile, and personification are all examples of .....
14. The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject.
15. I wandered lonely as a cloud
16. A long narrative poem about medieval culture and secret love.
17. How many lines per stanza does tercet
18. What is this stanza's rhyme scheme?Then suddenly one awful day, She heard the Magic Mirror say, "From now on Queen you're number two, Snow White is prettier than you!"
19. What gives nonhuman things human characteristics? Example:The waves dance along the shore.
20. A figure of speech that combines two words that contradict each other