Poetry Terms Quiz 330 (20 MCQs)

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1. How would you describe imagery?
2. What is the correct term for the following definition? The imaginary voice a poet uses when writing a poem. The character who tells the poem.
3. A 14 line poem, usually highly structured. The three main types are Shakesperean, Petrachan or Spenserian
4. Giving human traits to a nonhuman thing is?
5. Repetition of vowel sounds in non rhyming words
6. What are the intended readers of a poem or writing called?
7. A single, unbroken sound of a spoken or written word
8. Which describes a lyric poem?
9. Describes one thing as if it were an apparently unlike thing
10. She is the ocean, powerful and majestic This is an example of .....
11. A comparison of two or more things using the words "like" or "as" . Example:The woman's face looked as wrinkled as an old paper bag.
12. The wind was loud, but very calm.It whirled around, like a tornadonot slowing the slightest bit. What words rhyme in this poem?
13. Sister Suzie's selling six sweaters.Is this an example of
14. What is something concrete that stands for somethin abstract?
15. Words that imitate the sounds they denote
16. Saying that one thing is something else
17. A fourteen line poem that contains 3 quatrains and one couplet.
18. Poetry with a specific meter, such as iambic pentameter or trochaic tetrameter
19. Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character. (Think about someone's tone of voice when they speak).
20. Using 5 sense words to paint a picture in the mind of the reader