Poetry Terms Quiz 289 (20 MCQs)

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1. "A woman ..... can do no good but in childbirth. But a woman can do evil. She can do evil." ~~ MEDEA
2. Scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to "flash" backward and tell what happened at an earlier time
3. Giving human qualities and traits to non-human object is .....
4. The piano sang a mournful song.
5. The pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Pairs of rhyming words get labeled with the same letter of the alphabet.
6. A concrete poem is written in .....
7. A poem written in honor of someone who had died
8. Lines of poetry arranged in groups
9. How a say a word (stressed and unstressed). Is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
10. A question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer
11. The poet is
12. This term means the representation through language of sense experience
13. "Less is more" is an example of what poetic device?
14. The repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds
15. "I'm so hungry I could eat a whole cow" is an example of what type of figurative language?
16. A type of figurative language that shows an object or animal acting like a human.
17. A very long narrative poem that tells of a hero's deeds
18. A writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story. This is called .....
19. Long, Narrative Poem that tells a story of a hero or historical figure or event.
20. Two lines of poetry that rhyme (AA)