Poetry Terms Quiz 491 (20 MCQs)

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1. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry is a haiku or rhythm?
2. That poor woman has so many mouths to feed. She spends all day in the kitchen.
3. Form of Japanese poetry with three lines and a specific number of syllables in each line
4. What is the correct spelling of the word that means a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
5. A long narrative poem that tells the story of a heroic or legendary figure.
6. The use of a sound or element more than once is known as:
7. Inflection is an ..... on specific words
8. What type of poem describes an object and relates it to a bigger idea?
9. To give human characteristics to something non-human.
10. A poem that is made in the shape of your topic is called?
11. A group of lines that usually develop one idea
12. The attitude of the author towards the subject that he/she is writing about is called .....
13. Rhyme within the same line
14. The repetition of consonant sounds is known as what:
15. Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary
16. Which vocabulary word is being defined? The repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words.
17. (She is pretty like a bird. He is as smart as cold as ice)
18. The speaker (or poet's) attitude towards the subject of the poem
19. A metaphor is nonhuman human traits
20. The beat created by its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables