Poetry Terms Quiz 154 (20 MCQs)

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1. Comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as
2. What is it called when a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else?
3. She ran lilke lightning. This is a ..... ?
4. The car is a dinosaur so we better buy a new one.
5. ..... is a visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
6. Which of the following is NOT an example of a Metaphor?
7. A foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.
8. Express thoughts and feelings of single person
9. What figurative language is used in this sentence?Gilbert and Gus gulped and gasped for air as they fought over the squeaky toy.
10. Continuation from one line of verse to the next.
11. Joke that makes a play on words; words have multiple meanings or sound similar but have different meanings
12. "It's a million degrees in here" is an example of .....
13. This is the author's attitude and how he feels towards the subject
14. A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to emphasize its significance.
15. Poetry's version of a paragraph is called a/an
16. What is the below example known as "I saw the man walking fora long time and he didn't stopfor many years."
17. What is the comparison of two things using the words 'like' or 'as' called?
18. The rhyming of two words at the end of two lines in a poem
19. A group of lines in a poem, usually consisting of four or more lines.
20. Define a sonnet and its structure.