Poetry Terms Quiz 398 (20 MCQs)

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1. The author/ writer of text not always the speaker of the poem
2. A sentence or writing becomes ambiguous when:
3. What is the term for a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?
4. When you gonna earn that pay When you gonna play that song and make my day The pattern of the END rhyme is also called the .....
5. Stanza with 3 lines
6. Japanese verse, three lines and 17 syllables
7. The use of the word 'worshipped implies that the narrator thinks she see's him as:
8. Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants.
9. Spondaic meter
10. An ode is meant to
11. The word makes the sound ..... boom, bang, hiss, etc .....
12. The process of marking beats in a poem to establish the prevailing metrical pattern. Prosody, the pronunciation of a song or poem, is necessary for scansion
13. A literary device that appeals to one or more of the reader's five senses is known as
14. The people in the poem
15. The voice through whom the poem is told.
16. "His body was tubular, and tapered, and smoke-blue" is an example of
17. Giving animals or objects human qualities
18. This is the term for having no punctuation at the end of a line.
19. The definition of the term "mood" is .....
20. Attitude of the speaker of a poem or poet toward the subject