Poetry Terms Quiz 48 (20 MCQs)

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1. Using a concrete object or phraseto represent a different abstract idea(the meaning is usually open to interpretation)is called
2. Free verse
3. Which connotation is MORE positive? ..... people rode on the roller coaster.
4. 3-lined poem without a rhyming pattern but consists of 17 unrhymed syllables. Usually about nature and originated in Japan
5. "It is the East, and Juliet is the sun." is an example of
6. Language that contains or uses figures of speech.
7. The pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines in a poem
8. The ordered pattern of rhyme in a poem
9. What is personification in poetry?
10. A Japanese poem written in three lines, usually about nature is called a:
11. The place where a line ends
12. A Simple Love Poem Your gran'ma, in her youth, was quiteAs blithe a little maid as you.And, though her hair is snowy white, Her eyes still have their maiden blue, And on her checks, as fair as thine, Methinks a girlish blush would glowIf she recalled the valentineShe got, ah! many years ago. A valorous youth loved gran'ma then, And wooed her in that auld lang syne;And first he told his secret whenHe sent the maid that valentine, No perfumed page nor sheet of goldWas that first hint of love he sent, But with the secret gran'pa told ..... "I love you" ..... gran'ma was content. Go, ask your gran'ma if you will, If ..... though her head be bowed and gray ..... If ..... though her feeble pulse be chill ..... True love abideth not for aye;By that quaint portrait on the wall, That smiles upon her from above, Methinks your gran'ma can recallThe sweet divinity of love. Dear Elsie, here 's no page of gold ..... No sheet embossed with cunning art ..... But here 's a solemn pledge of old:"I love you, love, with all my heart."And if in what I send you hereYou read not all of love expressed, Go ..... go to gran'ma, Elsie dear, And she will tell you all the rest! Which line in the poem shows evidence to Part A?
13. Japanese verse in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, often depicting a delicate image.
14. Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity
15. When two words have similar, but not the same, middle and end sounds.
16. Figurative language
17. A comparison between two things without using connecting words such as "like" or "as."
18. Direct comparisson saying one thing is another; symbolic. Does not use "like" or "as"
19. The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
20. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word like or as.