Poetry Terms Quiz 243 (20 MCQs)

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1. Using an object or a word to represent an abstractEx:a heart = love
2. A word's dictionary definition.
3. Any grouping of words in a poem or an entire poem
4. A longer speech given by a single character.
5. Using a situation, description, or quotethat draws another text to mindwithout actually naming the textin order draw a comparison and add meaningis called
6. ..... is the representation through language of sense experience. It occurs when the words of a poem relate to one of the five senses or a sense of feeling.
7. Definition:Poetry that has no regular rhythm or meter
8. Writing with language chosen & arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm is
9. Lines are grouped together into
10. What is the musical quality created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?
11. Simile or Metaphor:My father is a bear in the morning.
12. The quality of being pleasing to the ear though a harmonious combination of words
13. Free verse in poetry is.....
14. What is a song?
15. How many syllables in the first and last lines of a haiku?
16. A humorous play on words
17. A group of words that are arranged in a row (like a sentence)
18. It was July, and the suntoasted the emerald grassuntil it smelled of warmth and green and life.Q. It was July, and my heartsoaked up the air warmth until it sang of joyand love and life.How many LINES in the poem above?
19. Which Disney Princess lost her shoe after the ball?
20. How many stanzas are in a villanelle?