Poetry Terms Quiz 103 (20 MCQs)

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1. Words that represent a sound.
2. "We passed the fields of grazing grain" contains .....
3. A poem usually of fourteen lines and following one several sets of rhyme schemes is known as a
4. Giving human qualities or characteristics to non-living things.
5. What word means a humorous, rhyming five line poems with a specific rhyme pattern and rhyme scheme.
6. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" means
7. Metaphors, similes, & personification are all types of this .....
8. "The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle." is an example of which figurative language?
9. An exaggeration meant for effect
10. Melancholy poem that laments its subject's death.
11. A form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain with the first and the third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas
12. A poem without rhyme
13. Which of these is a proper example of alliteration?
14. A literary term in which one representative term stands for something else.
15. The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
16. This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line. Ex:If this were a poem, this would be an example of the technique
17. Arrangement of words or phrases in a sentence
18. What is a set of lines in a poem with a line space between them?
19. ..... is something literal in the story that stands for or evokes an abstract idea.
20. "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew" is an example of .....