Poetry Terms Quiz 113 (20 MCQs)

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1. The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break
2. Fleet feet sweep by sleeping Greeks.
3. A poem written in the shape of its subject matter
4. A rhyme scheme is a pattern of end rhymes.
5. Reader's feelings
6. Poems that have a specific order the writer has to follow
7. A fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of fixed length; used to create rhythm
8. A reference to a person, place, event, or work of literature
9. What type of figurative language is this statement:The wind sang a lovely song in Chloe's ear.
10. A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though.
11. Having a feeling of rancor toward someone means you
12. A group of lines placed together in a poem is a .....
13. Boom, buzz, pow, bang
14. An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference to literature, music, art, pop culture, the news, etc.
15. When rhyming words come at the ends of the lines. The most common type of poetic rhyme.
16. What type of poem tells a story?
17. Trochaic meter
18. The pattern of end rhymes, written out in letters (AABB)
19. "Plunk" is an example of what?
20. A writer's or speaker's choice of words and way of arranging the words in sentences