Poetry Terms Quiz 213 (20 MCQs)

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1. What gives a character, place, or object a deeper meaning? Example:The color white represents purity.
2. 5 lines
3. How many stanzas are there? A blue day A blue jay And a good beginning. One crow, Melting snow-Spring's winning! By Eleanor Farjeon
4. A poem in which a word or phrase is spelled vertically using the first letter of each line
5. What is a "elegy" ?
6. Refers to repeated sounds, words, phrases, lines used for emphasis
7. A kind of figurative language in which an animal, object, or idea is given human qualities.
8. The person that narrates the poem
9. Creative language or figures of speech used in poetry or prose
10. The pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem or song
11. A poem that lacks the line breaks traditionally associated with poetry (a poem written in sentences and paragraphs)
12. A book of poems by different poets
13. Using words with the same beginning sound to highlight key words, make a poem memorable, or create a feeling or moodis called
14. Words that have the same end sound, but are not spelled the same at the end of the words.
15. A poem with fixed rules made up of rhythm and/or rhyme scheme is .....
16. This signals one stanza has ended and a new one is beginning.
17. The feeling the poet is trying to convey
18. A type of poem that tells a story.
19. The beat created by the stressed and unstressed syllables in words
20. Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of two or more clauses or lines.