Poetry Terms Quiz 50 (20 MCQs)

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1. The character who is the voice of the poem (usually not the author; sometimes this character is a part of the poem OR outside of the poem
2. A type of lyric poem that addresses broad, serious themes such as justice, truth, or beauty.
3. What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words?
4. Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea.
5. A comparison between two unlike things using like or as or as if
6. Crash, bang, buzz, swish, and splash are all examples of what sound device?
7. Shakespearean sonnet
8. Third rime
9. A repetition of sounds throughout several words in a line
10. "Save me from the hateful sea and the jagged lightning and the violence of love." ~~ MEDEA
11. When a line in a poem breaks and continues onto the next line?
12. What is the rhyme scheme of the following stanza ..... Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of MayAnd summer's lease hath all too short a date.
13. This is the universal idea, meaning, or message of a text.
14. The meaning, associations, and feelings given to a word by society are its what?
15. A form of poetry written in iambic pentameter, but which does not rhyme. The most famous examples are "Paradise Lost" by John Milton and the plays of William Shakespeare
16. Matching ending sounds in two or more words
17. Newspapers and textbooks are written in .....
18. Verses; how the poem is divided.
19. ..... is when the final accented vowel and succeeding consonants are identical.
20. The repetition of inner and ending consonant sounds of nearby words that do not rhyme