Poetry Terms Quiz 76 (20 MCQs)

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1. A short, musical poem that usually expresses personal feeling in a short and concise, and beautiful, way.
2. A very tall basketball player standing next to a very short gymnast
3. What is a sentence?
4. When iambic rhythm happens 5 times in a line, making 10 syllables of alternating stresses
5. A type of poetry that has a fixed number of syllables, stanzas, rhyme scheme and/or meter
6. Word pictures created through the use of figurative language or vivid descriptions
7. What is the main characteristic of a ballad?
8. Fixed form
9. How a poem or text is organized internally based on its ideas
10. What is it called when poetry does not have a rhyme or a regular meter?
11. Is honor or glorifying an event or inanimate object. Feelings not emotional.
12. What do words like "Bang!" and "Meow!" exemplify in poetry?
13. Words linked because of sound
14. Identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds (also known as near rhyme or slant rhyme):home and same, worth and breath, trophy and daffy.
15. "I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me"is an example of
16. Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.What is this an example of?
17. Words like "achoo! pow! whoosh! splat!" are examples of which literary term?
18. A repetition of similar sounds.Example:She sells seashells by the seashore.
19. When something unexpected happens
20. Which word means "an attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words" ?