Poetry Terms Quiz 145 (20 MCQs)

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1. Why is white space important in a poem?
2. The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story, poem, play, etc.
3. Poem paragraph/groups of lines in a poem
4. Emotional environment or atmosphere created by poet
5. Reversal of the usual order of words
6. Use of images to describe something in a way that helps the reader visualize (or see) what is happening.
7. "I am one of many small branches of a broken tree" is an example of
8. The poet's attitude towards his/her subject or audience.
9. Poets use this to create images, draw connections and provoke emotions for the reader.
10. A word created for humor or to rhyme
11. The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text. Ex:A worm named Maurice took the garden by storm.
12. The art of expressing one's thoughts in verse. Written in lines and stanzas, with a lot of white space on the page.
13. Something that stands for or represents something else
14. Uses words with identical end sound
15. Ideas and feelings associated with a word, as opposed to its dictionary definition
16. When Carrie Newcomer says, "Sunlight, and blueberries, Good dogs and wool socks" or "The smooth glassy calm of the morning pond, " she is appealing to your five senses which is called .....
17. This is an extreme exaggeration for dramatic effect.
18. ..... the pattern of rhyme formed by the end rhyme in a poem. The ..... is designated by the assignment of a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme.
19. A figure of speech that compares two unlike things that share similar characteristics (does not use "like" or "as" )
20. Use of any element of language more than once