Poetry Terms Quiz 60 (20 MCQs)

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1. A grouped set of lines in a poem, like a paragraph is called .....
2. What is this an example of? Don't be a Scrooge!
3. Rhyme scheme is.....
4. Figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person.
5. Details or ideas from the text that connect back to the main idea
6. Giving non-human things human qualities such as feelings or actions
7. Like a paragraph within a poem
8. What is an end-stop line?
9. The repetition of same or similar vowel sounds within nonrhyming words
10. What are the following an examples of? Philadelphia Flyers, Ms. McGuffin, green grass, wonderful win
11. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds.
12. Recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry
13. Portraying a person place or thing as being something else is called a:
14. In the story A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, a penny-pinching and bitter Ebenezer Scrooge values money more than people. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? Our neighbor has a reputation for being a Scrooge, so we don't even stop at his door any more when we're fundraising.
15. I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow!
16. A type of literature in which words are carefully chosen to create certain effects.
17. Author's feeling toward poem subject.
18. She soothed her secret sorrow.
19. "Candy the yams and spice the hams, "This line is an example of .....
20. An old silent pond ..... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again.