Poetry Terms Quiz 347 (20 MCQs)

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1. Comparing two unlike things using words such as "like" or "as"
2. End stop
3. He's as tall as a skyscraper!!
4. A comparison between 2 unlike objects; uses the words like, as, resembles, or than is called a(n) .....
5. The process of analyzing formal, structured poetry for stress patterns and syllable counts
6. An attempt to fuse different senses by describing one kind of sense impression in words normally used to describe another.
7. The underlying message about life OR lesson taught in the poem/story is called the .....
8. A pair (2) of successive lines that rhyme and have the same meter is what?
9. Qualities of language that you can hear
10. A group of lines formed as a unit; a "paragraph" of poetry
11. A truth, lesson or message about life
12. What is an iamb?
13. Shakespearean sonnet with a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
14. Any device that creates a picture in the reader's mind is called
15. A group of lines (similar to a paragraph) in a poem is called a .....
16. This is a word whose sound imitates its meaning, like "Buzz."
17. A type of poem that praises and celebrates its subject
18. Giving human qualities and abilities to an object or idea
19. Written and spoken language that is not poetry:sentences, paragraphs, stories, chapters, etc.
20. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there's some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.