Poetry Terms Quiz 119 (20 MCQs)

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1. A ..... poem is in the shape of its topic.
2. Sensory Language
3. A group of words in a row.
4. A literary work written in verse format
5. A comparison of two things using like or as
6. Love is a tornado.
7. What is end rhyme?
8. A literary genre characterized by rhythmical patterns of language
9. Which term means comparing two unlike things using like or as?
10. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ..... of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
11. Narrative poems are poems that
12. A regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables that sets the overall rhythm of certain poems; made up of groupings called "feet"
13. Iambic meter
14. A kind of poem that follows a set of rules, such as a limerick, haiku, or sonnet, is .....
15. Using the same sound or letter at the beginning of a word
16. The moon winked at me through the clouds as if to say I should venture forward.' What object is being personified in the sentence?
17. A comparison of two different things, using either "as" or "like"
18. This is a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
19. Someone who is ..... usually works hard to succeed.
20. Personification, what is it?