Poetry Terms Quiz 132 (20 MCQs)

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1. To give a human trait to something nonhuman. "The moon stared down, watching me.
2. Boom! Swish! Ka pow!
3. Descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader, created by details of sight, sound, taste, smell, or movement
4. A line with two feet is called .....
5. Use, more than once, of any element of language. This may be a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence.
6. "Homework is a breeze" I a .....
7. Unit of meter
8. Repetition of consonant sounds usually at the ends of words
9. A unit of pronunciation that usually has one vowel sound.
10. This is a direct comparison.
11. Does this sentence have a literal or figurative meaning? My whole life is one big circus.
12. It has only three lines, with just seventeen syllables and no rhyming.
13. Sensory language is .....
14. What is a pattern of unstressed syllables within a line of verse?
15. What is the structure of syllables in the lines of a haiku?
16. ..... occurs when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond.
17. The use of words to create a vivid mental picture or physical sensation-appeals to the readers 5 senses-sight, sound, taste, smell, or touch
18. An illustrator draws a picture of darkness around the main character. The darkness represents a problem that the character may be facing. What could this problem be?
19. The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words
20. A regular pattern of end rhyme