Poetry Quiz 12 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which poetic structure is similar to a paragraph in prose?
2. A word that sounds like the noise it describes
3. Which literary device is being conveyed in the following line?"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so"
4. The pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem, written as letters.EX:ABAB CDCD
5. Describes something non-human with human qualities
6. What is it called when an object, animal or inanimate object is portrayed as having human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes?
7. In THE INCHCAPE ROCK, What makes Ralph the Rover regrets his action of stealing the bell?
8. What did a Roman patrician consider his best pursuit?
9. Who wrote 'Exposure'?
10. All the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words, in addition to their literal dictionary definition.
11. What do we call t he main message an author hopes to convey?
12. To what creatures does Vergil devote an entire book of the Georgics?
13. A group of words whose meaning is different from the actual (ordinary) meaning of the word is an ..... (Ex. It's raining cats and dogs."
14. Read the stanza from the poem.'Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.I riseI rise I rise. "Why does she repeat "I rise?"
15. The example highlighted below is an example of?The black birddog boldly began to bark.
16. The second stripe of the rainbow is .....
17. 'The lone and level sands stretch far away'
18. The excerpt below is an example of which poetic device?"I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, And the river flows like a stream of glass;"
19. What does the P in TPFASTT stand for?
20. Which writer said, "The free bird thinks of another breeze."