Poetry Terms Quiz 109 (20 MCQs)

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1. A poem with no rhythm or rhyme.
2. What word means the ideas and feelings that words bring to mind.
3. What is the term for the use of words to create a picture or image in the reader's mind in a poem?
4. Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme; more like everyday talk.
5. A brief, intentional reference, to a famous or well known historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement. Often referenced texts include the Bible and Greek mythology.
6. Narrative poem written in four-line stanzas
7. Anthropomorphism
8. A line of dimeter contains this many feet:
9. The ideas and feelings associated with a word
10. A pause in the middle of a line of poetry
11. "Using extreme exaggeration to make a point" is a definition of:
12. Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme.
13. Her eyes are as sparkly as a diamond is a
14. The lesson of the poem is that life can feel scary sometimes
15. A group of words together on one line of the poem
16. Lines that end with the same sound.
17. What is the figurative meaning of "Winter's icy grip caused people to shudder and flock back to their homes."
18. How many lines does the poem below have?It came in a winter's night, a fierce cold with quite a bite.Frosted wind with all its mightsent ice and snow an inviteto layer earth in pure whiteand glisten with morning light.
19. Giving human qualities or actions to non-human things.ex. The moon was smiling.
20. To dig deep and get a better understanding is to.....