Poetry Terms Quiz 94 (20 MCQs)

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1. What are the three types of irony?
2. An overstatement or exaggeration. It is used to show emphasis and can often be found within a simile or metaphor
3. The life lesson or moral
4. The repetition of consonant sounds, generally at the beginnings of words
5. "The sunflower danced in the wind" is an example of
6. "whoosh, tick-tock, zoom, purr" are examples of .....
7. When a writer gives hints that suggest future events in a story
8. The reason why an author writes a poem
9. Creates pictures using words-these affect us emotionally and intellectually.
10. "An ambitious young fellow named MattTried to parachute using his hat.Folks below looked so smallAs he started to fall, Then got bigger and bigger and SPLAT!" What kind of poem is shown above?
11. The pattern of end rhyme in poetry is called .....
12. The use of a word that sounds like the thing or diction it describes. BUZZ-BANG-POW
13. Is this a pun? Fish are so smart because they live in schools?
14. The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, according to their choice of words. Often described as a "mood" that pervades the experience of reading the poem, it is created by the poem's vocabulary,
15. The overall feeling or atmosphere of the poem that the reader feels, regardless of what choices the author makes
16. A poem or a song narrating a story in short stanzas.
17. "Life is like a chicken wing" is an example of:
18. A line that has 10 beats and the beats have the stress pattern of unstressed/stressed .....
19. "the sweet silky scent of rose petals and pollen filled the air. My garden was speckled with reds pinks, purples, and violets" is an example of
20. A direct comparison between two things.