Poetry Terms Quiz 174 (20 MCQs)

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1. Words that are used to imitate sounds. Words sound like the noises they describe
2. The beauty of thought and language is called
3. Rhymes as ABAB CDCD EFEF
4. What is the definition of a mood?
5. The beat that helps shape a poem's meaning and structure.
6. Extravagant exaggeration used for humor or effect
7. When we make an ..... we read a poem and take out the meaning.
8. He didn't want to eat .....
9. How the poem makes the reader feel.
10. A poem that tells a story is called a-
11. A group of words arranged in a row. When using as evidence in an essay, these are broken by slashes.
12. A type of poem where one or more of the characters speak. The "speakers" is someone other than the poet.
13. Used by poets to convey a poem's meaning and mood
14. What is the correct definition of rhyme?
15. A section of a play where a specific action takes place is called .....
16. Words that appeal to the senses (see, touch, feel, hear, sounds, taste, smell)
17. "My flowers were begging for water on the hot summer day" is an example of:
18. A poem narrating a story in short stanzas with a rhyme scheme is a?
19. A group of related lines in a poem
20. A poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable