Poetry Terms Quiz 71 (20 MCQs)

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1. Songlike poems that tell stories of adventure and romance
2. This is when a sound is repeated over and over again. Example:Sally Sold Seashells by the Seashore.
3. What term is defined as a comparison that says one thing is another?
4. Carrying a sentence or a phrase over the end of a line (in poetry)
5. What is the name of a personwho writes poetry?
6. Define slant rhyme.
7. A poetic form that avoids using fixed patterns
8. The author's use of language that appeals to the five senses in order to help the reader imagine exactly what is being described is .....
9. "He weighs a ton" is an example of:
10. The imaginary voice assumed by the writer in the poem is called .....
11. A short lyrical poem, often in praise of something.
12. The number and style of accented syllables in a line
13. Read the following line: "My brother tapped his pencil lightly on the desk as he hummed." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal?
14. What is the purpose of an extended metaphor in poetry?
15. Which word means:'To compare two objects using the words like or as?'
16. How many stanzas does the following poem contain? One foot down, then hop! It's hot.Good things for the ones that's got.Another jump, now to the left.Everybody for hisself. In the air, now both feet down.Since you black, don't stick around.Food is gone, the rent is due, Curse and cry and then jump two. All the people out of work, Hold for three, then twist and jerk.Cross the line, they count you out.That's what hopping's all about. Both feet flat, the game is done.They think I lost. I think I won.
17. Stories that use fantasy to express ideas about life that cannot be expressed easily in realistic terms
18. The mood that influences a reader's emotional response to a poem
19. A collection of lines in a poem that resemble a paragraph.
20. What is:a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" and "as?"