Poetry Terms Quiz 196 (20 MCQs)

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1. ..... is the feeling that a reader gets after reading a piece of literature.
2. This type of poem has common words and usually a refrain. it appeals to most people and tells a story.
3. Giving human qualities to a non-human thing. This is intentional.
4. Using any language element more than once
5. Compares two unlike things without using like or as; says one thing is another
6. A figure of speech in which a person not present is addressed
7. What is the definition of a personification?
8. My shirt is blue.(Blue = color, not sad)
9. How is mood expressed in a literary work?
10. The authors attitude toward the subject of the text.
11. Illustrating one idea through a more well-known idea, similar to the first
12. A poem that has 14 lines, and each line must have exactly 10 syllables and be written in iambic pentameter. In a typical Shakespearean one of these, the last couplet (two lines) of the poem rhymes.
13. Sarcasm
14. A single "sentence" of a poem
15. The beat and pace of a poem.
16. Diction is the dictionary meaning of a word; the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
17. A more modern poem that sounds conversational and has no rules is ..... (hint:type of organic poem)
18. "dappled doggies dash"
19. Words that represent the actual sound of something
20. Is it true that ..... All poems must rhyme/Todos los poemas deben rimar.