Poetry Terms Quiz 248 (20 MCQs)

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1. 14 line poem
2. Poem that is a story, with conflict, setting etc. Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry because the poet needs to establish characters and a plot is a .....
3. ..... is not the main idea of the text, but the author's intent for writing the piece
4. Figurative language is used only in poetry
5. Both boys and girls basketball teams open the season against the same opponent. Who?
6. Bed Bugs Bite Businessmen The threat of bed bugs is now seen as one of the biggest hazards to business travel as the unwelcome pests have become a growing problem for the hotels of major cities. "I miss the old days when it was just the rats and cockroaches that we had to worry about, " one longtime life insurance salesman said wistfully. What type of figurative language is used?
7. The repetition of usually unstressed similar endings in proximal words, as in the phrase "rising with the dawning morning" is known as
8. A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem
9. Chilly chicken children shivered with goosebumps
10. What poem uses figurative language in a particularly structured way to express an idea?
11. "It's raining cats and dogs" is an example of what type of figurative language?
12. Imagery is language that creates a picture.
13. The main message of a poem is:
14. Poems that don't rhyme or have a rhythm (beat) to it.
15. What technique shows the repetition of the same sound?
16. A poem about loss or death.
17. Mom was a busy beaver as she prepared for the holiday party. What are the words in blue an example of?
18. What is is a verse, a line or a group of lines that repeats at regular intervals?
19. Slows the reader and brings attention to individual words and phrases
20. What words do you look at to find out the rhyme scheme?