Poetry Terms Quiz 457 (20 MCQs)

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1. This refers to the way a poem is presented to the reader.
2. Emotional associations
3. Which list of words is NOT related to poetry?
4. Emotional or figurative value of words that goes beyond dictionary definition
5. Comparing something using like or as
6. An exaggerated statement is a .....
7. Reversal of usual order of words to achieve emphasis.
8. A line of poetry containing three metrical feet
9. A word whose sound is similar to a thing to action.
10. A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.(Like a beat in music)
11. How do we refer to the "voice" we hear when reading a poem?
12. A group of lines or "poem paragraphs"
13. What is the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words? Example:Iris irons irregularly.
14. Which of these lines from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" contains alliteration?
15. Types of Stanzas:A four-line stanza is .....
16. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of a word.
17. Perhaps because bats are nocturnal in habit, a wealth of thoroughly unreliable legend has grown up about them, and men have made of the harmless, even beneficial little beasts a means of expressing their unreasoned fears. Bats were the standard paraphernalia for witches, the females half of humanity stood in terror that bats would become entangled in their hair. Phrases crept into the language expressing man's revulsion or ignorance- "Bat's in the Belfry, " "Batty, " "Blind as a Bat."
18. Rain races, Ripping like wind. It's restless rage rattles like rocks ripping.
19. A rhetorical technique often incorporating irony and humor, in which something is represented as less than it actually is.
20. An epistolary poem