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Poetry Terms Quiz 171 (20 MCQs)

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1. A reference to a well known work of literature, art, music, etc.
2. The metrical unit, consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables, by which a line of poetry is measured.
3. The attitude the poem's narrator (may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character.
4. Which example from Richard Siken's "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" is enjambed?
5. When the author uses words to paint a picture in your head.
6. Choose the best example of Alliteration.
7. Extreme exaggeration for effect or to emphasize a point
8. The feeling a reader or listener gets from hearing a poem is .....
9. Chocolate is my Achilles' heel
10. A mournful, contemplative lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead, often ending in a consolation
11. Words that nearly rhyme
12. "I'm an open book" is an example of:
13. A literary technique when two or more words are linked that share the same first consonant sound, such as "fish fry."
14. A poem that describes an object, written in the shape of the object.
15. A comparison of two unlike things using like, as, or than.
16. Word that is the meaning of a sound.
17. Giving human characteristics to non human things
18. A pattern of words that have similar endings.
19. A rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated
20. An authors uses details to appeal to the senses
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