Poetry Terms Quiz 214 (20 MCQs)

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1. A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity.
2. The lesson or moral of the story or poem that relates to life.
3. Tanya never stops talking.
4. The process of marking meter is .....
5. The runner is a cheetah.
6. What is the definition of the term:Symbol?
7. Repeating initial consonant sounds
8. What is "a 17-syllable, delicate unrhymed Japanese verse, usually about nature" ?
9. The literary term for a poem ostensibly about farming and the practical aspects of rustic life is
10. "Blazing in gold and quenching in purple, "
11. A way to divide sections of lines in a poem. Similar to a paragraph in prose.
12. The way an author writes. An author's choice of words, figurative language, rhyme, rhythm, or repetition.
13. Making a non-human object have human qualities is called ..... For example:The river tripped and skipped over the rocks on its way to the ocean.
14. "My lips are dumb" is an example of:
15. Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
16. What is the extended metaphor?
17. This is like a paragraph for a poem
18. What is the usual rhyme scheme used in Dickinson's poerty?
19. Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
20. Authoritative works of a writer & an accepted list of works perceived to represent cultural, ideological, historical etc. grouping