Poetry Terms Quiz 359 (20 MCQs)

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1. Label the rhyme scheme in this limerick:Aclumsy young fellow named Tim Was never informed how to swim. He fell off a dock And sank like a rock. And that was the end of him.
2. An example of a lyric poem that mourns the dead is a(n)
3. Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables and line length to create the "sound" of the poem
4. Nothing Gold Can StayNature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. What is Frost referring to in the phrase "Nature's first green" ?
5. Giving non-human things human qualities
6. ENG:a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas. SPN:a way of expressing the comparison using the word "like" EX:Clear as day
7. Words that imitate sounds:buzz, pow, bang
8. What type of figurative language is shown?They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
9. Two consecutive (in a row) lines of rhyming poetry
10. A poem in verse that tells a story
11. The ball ..... hit my face.
12. A comparison in which something that is not human is described with human characteristics
13. The sun is shining bright and warm. This is an example of .....
14. True or False:Poetry is a form of literary expression that captures intense experiences or creative perceptions of the world in a musical language.
15. Each line in poetry represents a complete thought.
16. Pairs of rhyming lines
17. Having the same sound at the end of 2 or more words.
18. This is using descriptive words to create a picture in the reader's mind.
19. A 14 line poem is called a?
20. A phrase that relies on extreme exaggeration to make a point