Poetry Terms Quiz 191 (20 MCQs)

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1. The rhyme scheme for the villanelle is ABC/ABC/ABC/ABC/ABC/ABBC
2. A 14-line poem, with one of a few rhyme schemes and in iambic pentameter
3. Contains a list of ideas, things, people, and places
4. The central idea, topic, or point of a story, essay, narrative, or poem.
5. Humorous, rhyming, five line poem
6. What is theme in poetry?
7. ..... is a comparison of two unlike things, but does not use the words "like" or "as" .
8. Words that do not mean exactly what they say
9. The poet's subjective views and attitude towards the reader and the subject.
10. Gives human traits and feelings to things that are not human-like animals or objects
11. "At midnight in the museum hall/ The fossils gathered for a ball"
12. Conversation between two fictitious speakers
13. What is the purpose of a line in a poem?
14. When a line breaks before completing a grammatical unit that can stand on its own
15. I know I'm going somewhere, and I can hardly wait, Somewhere's not the sort of placewhere someone should be late What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
16. What is the term for when two (or more) lines of poetry end with words that rhyme?
17. Compares 2 things by saying one is the other
18. The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to (such as boom or splat)
19. Imaginative comparison without using like or as
20. An illustrator draws a picture of a person intently watching a bird fly overhead. What is the bird representing?