Poetry Terms Quiz 499 (20 MCQs)

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1. A person, place, thing, or idea within a poem that means something in addition to itself
2. A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives the poetry a rhythmic quality
3. Graphical Elements
4. Which vocabulary word is being defined? Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses?
5. The rhythmical arrangement of syllables into verses or stanzas.
6. Choose the word with the more POSITIVE (+) connotation.
7. ..... is the use of a sound, word, or phrase more than once.
8. (The rock cried out in fear. Her chair squealed in agony.)
9. Words that evoke pictures and trigger the mind's memories of sight (visual), sounds (auditory), tastes (gustatory), smells (olfactory), and sensations of touch (tactile).
10. A 17 syllable, three line, unrhymed Japanese verse, usually about nature.
11. A word that sounds like its meaning, or mimics the sound Creates a visual image
12. Calypso, the loveliest among goddessesThe phrase above is an example of a .....
13. The position or outlook from which the speaker tells the story
14. Which sound would be used in assonance?
15. Expression of ideas or feelings through words, usually having form, rhythm, and rhyme
16. Alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhyme are all .....
17. Literature written in a poetic or rhyming format
18. What literary device is this?The woods are lovely dark and deepBut I have promises to keepAnd miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.
19. Rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry
20. "Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow."