Poetry Terms Quiz 222 (20 MCQs)

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1. The recurring elements of fire and mockingjay in The Hunger Games are examples of .....
2. ..... can be defined as: "A pattern of end rhymes in a poem"
3. A Narrative Poem that appears in the form of an extended metaphor.
4. The wind was loud, but very calm.It whirled around, like a tornadonot slowing the slightest bit. How many lines are in this poem?
5. Extreme hunger, starvation
6. The speaker is ..... the same person as the author
7. A person, place, object, animal, or activity that stands for something beyond itself
8. The voice that speaks behind the scene. It is the narrative voice that speaks of a writer's feelings or situation. This would be the:
9. What is going beyond the ordinary meaning of words in order to achieve an effect or express an idea by using metaphors, similes, irony, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia?
10. When the poet conveys meaning by creating a metaphor that lasts the entire poem.
11. Combines two terms that are normally contradictory. An example:Living dead, pretty ugly
12. Four lines form the stanza
13. A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit
14. An extreme exaggeration for effect is called:
15. Visualization
16. A humerous verse of Five lines
17. A long, lyrical poem usually serious in nature
18. Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet and so are you!
19. Poem "types" such as elegy, ode, sonnet, etc., are examples of poetic .....
20. Run-on line in poetry without pause; the line 'runs over' or 'steps over' from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation