Poetry Terms Quiz 397 (20 MCQs)

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1. A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed, as in seventeen and to the moon.
2. A comparison using the word "is"
3. Giving human characteristics to describe a non living thing or animal
4. In poetry, there are .....
5. The literary term for exaggeration is called:
6. Repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word repeated through a series of words that are close to each other.
7. A word, line, or phrase in a poem that is repeated.
8. What term refers to a type of poem that tells a story, often with a plot, characters, and dialogue?
9. Refers to a word choice.
10. A rhyme within the same line of poetry
11. "Two people for the price of one" Mr. Yao joked.Add the comma.
12. What is this an example of: "I think that I shall never see/ a poem as lovely as a tree"
13. Lyric poem on a serious subject, usually written in a precise structure.
14. A four-lined stanza
15. A comparison that gives human qualities to an object, animal, or idea
16. A comparison between two different things using like or as is called:
17. The attitude of the speaker or poet toward the subject of the poem or toward the reader
18. A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme
19. Is a poem where the first letter of each line is the subsequent letter of the alphabet.
20. The rhythm created by the stressed and unstressed pattern of syllables.