Poetry Terms Quiz 58 (20 MCQs)

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1. Descriptive language that appeals to our senses
2. What type of figurative language is a comparison NOT using "like" or "as" ?
3. An implied or indirect reference to something the reader should recognize
4. Comparing unlike things using comparative words
5. A poem with no rhyme scheme, no meter, no particular structure, and no rules.
6. The pattern of end rhyme in a poem is called ..... and is labeled using letters of the alphabet.
7. The structure of a poem; the way its words and lines are arranged.
8. The vantage point of the speaker, or "teller" of the story or poem.
9. The fog is a cat/ sneaking upon the unaware city
10. Giving human qualities to non-living objects
11. I ..... my favorite poem and learned it by heart.
12. The pattern of end rhymes in a poem, written out as letters, such as AABB or ABAB.
13. Means extreme exaggeration
14. Form of Japanese poetry that consists of 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables
15. What word refers to the underlying message the author wants you to think about?
16. Eight lines are called?
17. A pair of rhyming lines is called a
18. Diction
19. A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison.
20. I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. What words rhyme?