Poetry Terms Quiz 326 (20 MCQs)

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1. A group of lines forming a unit/ The group of lines is separated by a space.
2. The main idea or meaning of a literary work
3. What poetic device is used in the following sentence? The birds in the aviary squawked and chirped loudly.
4. What is it called when a writer refers to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, or piece of literature?
5. Achange in poetry in tone, structure, or speaker.
6. To which of the five senses does the following sentence or phrase appeal? When I walked into the room, I was immediately surrounded with the aroma of homemade cookies.
7. Lyrical poetry
8. Five line poem or stanza with rhyme scheme AABBA
9. How do you know if a poem is a narrative?
10. What is the bolded section of this poem an example of? from Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening":Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.
11. What is the term for the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line in a poem?
12. A song or a song-like poem that tells a story.
13. The voice of the poem, similar to a narrative
14. Words or feelings evoked by another word
15. What type of figurative language is the following sentence:How much dew would a dewdrop drop if a dewdrop did drop dew?
16. A pattern of stressed syllables that create a beat
17. 3 lined poem, usually about nature, 17 syllables
18. The way a reader is supposed to feel in response to the work.
19. A type of alliteration that involves a repetition of an 's' sound which creates a hissing quality is called
20. Insufficient or not enough