Poetry Terms Quiz 473 (20 MCQs)

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1. Poetry whose shape matches topics of the poem
2. Feminine rhyme
3. The lumberjack leveled the many trees, and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.
4. Almost rhyme, or halt rhyme
5. The overall feeling a poem expresses
6. The voice that speaks to the reader
7. Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
8. A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human characteristics
9. Poem that forms the shape of its subject
10. The element of design is slight. The lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning, as paragraphs are in prose. Could contain rhyme, but not in an organized form
11. Language that uses comparisons and non-literal meanings
12. Tells a story in verse ..... has elements of fiction like plot and character
13. The attitude the poet creates in a poem
14. Pick the type of rhyme: "As Twilight long begun / Sequestered afternoon" ~~ Emily Dickinson
15. A grouping of lines that form a unit in a poem
16. The process of using a note to explain an idea
17. The baby girl's smile was the sun on dark days. What does the metaphor mean above?
18. A statement in which there is an apparent contradiction which is actually true
19. Bonus Q:Finish this famous line of poetry:I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a .....
20. "Nate ate half rate fish bait" is an example of: