Poetry Terms Quiz 234 (20 MCQs)

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1. Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. (Think about how YOU feel as the reader/listener).
2. Pattern of end rhyme Ex. AA BB
3. What is a subject?
4. Telling people you are "between jobs" instead of "got fired"
5. The beat and movement of language (rise and fall, repetition and variation, change of pitch, mix of syllables, melody of words).
6. Poetry that appeals to the FIVE senses.
7. Which word means "the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language" ?
8. Three line poem that is organized by syllables
9. "Dewy dawns" is an example of
10. The associated meaning of a word-positive or negative. Images and thoughts evoked from a word by the reader.
11. Refrain is when a poem repeats entire lines or more several times throughout.Like the chorus of a song
12. Form of literary device used in poetry, creates imagery for the reader.
13. What does the following poem symbolize? An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
14. The feeling the poet creates/how the reader feels is .....
15. A genre of literature that expresses feelings, ideas, or tells a story in a specific form-using lines and stanzas
16. A stanza of four lines that has a regular rhyming pattern
17. Define "rhyme."
18. Words or phrases that are repeated
19. Give a nonhuman object human characteristics.
20. "The musical quality created by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry" is called .....