Poetry Terms Quiz 497 (20 MCQs)

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1. Identify what type of figurative language the following sentence displays.Her eyes were diamonds in the moonlight.
2. The individual parts of a poem are its .....
3. Most monsters don't mind making messes.
4. Language that is imaginative and goes beyond the literal meanings of words to create imagery
5. Two words placed close together which are contradictory, yet have truth in them
6. Giving inanimate objects human qualities
7. A fourteen lined poem, usually written in iambic pentameter
8. How the writer feels about what he/she is writing is .....
9. A speaker or writer's choice of words
10. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem excerpt? And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
11. A story or poem's message about life or human nature
12. Simple Simon sighed after he slipped on the sidewalk.
13. If you are looking at DICTION in poetry, what are you focusing on?
14. The overall feeling or atmosphere of the poem that the author tries to create
15. Poem that tells a story; contains characters, conflict, plot .....
16. Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
17. ..... is the repetition of identical sounds located at the ends of words. They can be either repeated consonant sounds or vowel sounds.
18. The suggested meaning of a word or phrase.
19. A narrative poem that was originally meant to be sung.
20. Comparing two things without using the words "like" or "as"