Poetry Terms Quiz 345 (20 MCQs)

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1. A reference to another piece of work (writing, movie, pop culture) within a text. "We aren't in Kansas anymore" would be an ..... to the Wizard of Oz.
2. Big bumbling bumblebees rode light, lilting breezes
3. The pattern of end rhyme in a poem Ex. (aabba)
4. He is the only honest thief.
5. A poem that has no regular patterns in line length, rhyme, or rhythym
6. This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line. Ex. If this were a poem, this would bean example of the technique.
7. Poems are often written in paragraphs called .....
8. A pun uses like or as?
9. An animal is given human-like qualities or an object is given life-like qualities
10. A unit of poetic lines
11. The repetition of a single consonant sound in words that are close together.
12. A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to something nonhuman.
13. ..... is the central message or meaning of the poem.
14. Giving an animal or object human characteristics
15. Two lines back to back that rhyme. Known because it is used by many famous poets and authors.
16. Change in focus, point of view, time, or tone in a poem
17. Last words of lines have perfect rhyme
18. Which of the following is the definition of imagery?
19. The trees whispered their songs of spring
20. Visually descriptive language.....