Poetry Quiz 8 (20 MCQs)

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1. The Roman poet most well known for his tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend, Lesbia, was .....
2. Which of the following is an example of parallelism?
3. The example highlighted below is an example of?The leaves danced in the wind.
4. In Canterbury Tales, at the beginning the pilgrims meet
5. A paragraph in poetry, surrounded abouve and below by skipped lines.
6. What part of Porphyria's body is the narrator seemingly obsessed with?
7. "Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard." What word has the same meaning as haughtiness is used in this stanza?
8. What idea is the speaker emphasizing? "I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore."
9. Which of the following words means 'scared'?
10. What is a contrast or opposition between two things?
11. Regular writing
12. Choose the rhyming word for 'stronger'
13. The following stanza emphasizes" The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete; Like a city child, it grows up in the street. Thrust against the metal sky, Somehow it survives and even thrives."
14. What is a verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter?
15. In a poem, the narrative voice is referred to as the
16. What is the occurrence of the same consonant sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
17. In "Introduction to Poetry" the poet uses similes and metaphors that
18. Pairs of lines in a poem are called .....
19. In THE QUARREL, what is the tone used by the poet in this poem?
20. Lines in poetry means