Poetry Terms Quiz 238 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which term below refers to the feelings and associations created by a word?
2. Ordinary form of spoken or written language without metrical structure (stories, articles, novels)
3. The sound of the language. Saying something in a way so as to make the poem more effective and to make more impact.
4. A stanza that has three lines.
5. Becky's beagle barked and bayed, becoming bothersome for Billy.
6. An assertion of the truth of something, typically one that is disputed or in doubt
7. A group of lines that make up a paragraph in a poem.
8. The voice that narrates the poem
9. 14 line poems in which each line is 10 syllables with a paricular rhyme scheme
10. Giving human like characteristics to nonhuman objects.
11. To which of the five senses does the following sentence or phrase appeal? The sweet, juicy strawberries reminded me of my childhood.
12. A word's "dictionary definition" rather than its associated emotion or definition.
13. Which word has a neutral connotation?
14. An exaggerated statement
15. A group of lines in a poem or song that constitutes a division (like a paragraph)
16. Repetitions of consonant sounds anywhere in the word.
17. What is the definition of onomatopoeia in poetry?
18. A humorous 5 line poem.
19. An exaggeration. A statement that something has either much more or much less of a quality than it truly has.
20. Read the following text:"The smell of the pine trees deep in the fall forest were likean earthy perfume that you could not imagine! The trickling stream, the smell of fall, and the sounds of a million yellow leaves falling gently on the windmade such a lovely afternoon."What poetic device (element of poetry) is this?