Poetry Terms Quiz 472 (20 MCQs)

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1. ..... is language that provides a sensory experience using sight, sound, smell, touch and taste.
2. An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
3. "The bees buzzed around the hive" is an example of
4. What do you call the narrator of the poem (the voice in the poem telling the poem)?
5. Comparison of two unlike things in which one thing becomes the other.ex. The sun is a yellow balloon
6. To give human characteristics to inanimate/nonliving objects
7. In most traditional poetry, the rhyme is organized in patterns.
8. A comparison of two unlike things without using like, as, or than
9. A(n) ..... is the imitation of natural sounds using words. For example:The bacon sizzled in the pan.
10. A group of lines in poetry (equivalent of a paragraph in prose)
11. Words formed by imitating the sound they make.
12. What is an approximate rhyme?
13. Lines and sentences are the same.
14. The feeling the reader gets when reading a work
15. The repetition of vowel sounds close together is an example of .....
16. A rhyme within a line of poetry
17. A comparison which asserts that one thing is the equivalent (or equal to) another:
18. The group of lines or "paragraph" of a poem is called a
19. What is a poet?
20. Occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.