Poetry Terms Quiz 240 (20 MCQs)

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1. The speaker is a character in the story or poem and tells it from his/herperspective (uses "I" ).
2. Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scene.
3. A pattern of rhymes at the end of lines. (AABA)
4. Japanese 3 line poems; follows syllable pattern of 5, 7, 5; about nature
5. "Each lock lifting me higher, like a 747, ZOOM ZOOM"
6. Which of the following is a simile?
7. How many foster kittens does Ms. Cattell have right now?
8. "two" successive rhyming lines.
9. A beat created by stressed and unstressed syllables in words
10. Already brushing off the dustis an example of .....
11. Pastoral
12. What are groups of lines in a poem called?
13. Match the definition with the correct vocabulary word. When the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of ONLY one character.
14. The voice of the story or the narrorator
15. What type of figurative language in this stanza? "Hear the loud alarum bells-Brazen Bells!What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!"- "The Bells, " Edgar Allan Poe
16. ..... sonnet is rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde
17. There was a young lady of Nice, Who insisted on bathing in grease.She slid through the houseTormenting her spouseTil he hid in the oven for peace.This is an example of-
18. Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme
19. Bitter or cutting speech, said with the intention to hurt someone's feelings
20. Based on photos submitted on picture day, there are ..... students in the freshman class.