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Poetry Terms Quiz 495 (20 MCQs)

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1. Comparing two unlike things saying one actually is another
2. Parallel Structure
3. A stanza that has four lines.
4. Directions:Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. Paul Laurence Dunbar- "We Wear the Mask" We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, ..... This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with countless subtleties.Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, whileWe wear the mask.We smile, but, O great Christ, our criesTo thee from tortured souls arise.We sing, but oh the ground is vileBeneath our feet, and long the mile;But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! #2 The people in the poem use a masquerade to
5. A feeling the author creates
6. Poetry that relays the speaker's personal feelings
7. Descriptive language that creates word pictures
8. A thing that stands for and represents itself and something else.
9. What does "allusion" mean?
10. "I throw down so hard, the fiberglass trembles"
11. How a poem or text appears to be organized on papers; its shape
12. Word association
13. Figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect.
14. The repetition of the same letter or sounds at the beginning of or within adjacent words
15. Lines in poetry grouped together
16. Triplet
17. Poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter
18. "I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinoccho's." This is an example of an .....
19. The "Song of Roland" ( "La Chanson de Roland" ) is a poem that tells of the Battle of Roncevaux and of the death of Roland, a trusted ally of Charlemagne. It is a medieval
20. A ballad not meant for singing, written by a sophisticated poet for educated readers, rather than arising from the anonymous oral tradition
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