Poetry Terms Quiz 316 (20 MCQs)

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1. It was July, and the sun toasted the emerald grass until it smelled of warmth and green and life. It was July, and my heart soaked up the air warmth until it sang of joy and love and life. How many stanzas in the poem above?
2. A pleasant combination or agreeable sounds.
3. An exaggerated statement or claim.
4. When something is said in a book that is in the further it is .....
5. A poem with no specific rhyme scheme but usually in iambic pentameter/
6. A process in which you look for things that are the same. (2 or more things)
7. What poetic device is exemplified by the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword"
8. (BAM! Splat. SHHHHHH!)
9. Poems free of rules and patterns
10. What are sound devices?
11. Which is the correct defintion of Couplet?
12. Literal definition
13. The following is an example of which sound device?ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
14. What term describes when a writer describes something by comparing it with something else?
15. Writer's attitude toward his or her audience or subject
16. What word refers to words whose sounds suggest their meaning?
17. Giving human characteristics to animals, objects, or ideas.
18. Poem in praise of a person, object, or event. Modern versions of this poem have multiple stanzas with 10 lines each, typically consisting of three to five stanzas. They use the rhyme scheme ABAB-CDECDE in each stanza.
19. A point where the piece takes a different route in rhyme, topic, tone, subject .....
20. "We may not save the plain cake for later." This is an example of: