Poetry Terms Quiz 418 (20 MCQs)

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1. A ..... is an extended metaphor with complex logic, or a startling comparison, that governs a poetic passage or an entire poem.
2. Which is an example of tone?
3. The description of an object, an animal, a place, or an idea as if it were human
4. This gives human like qualities or abilities to nonhuman things
5. Stories told in song, using the voice and language of everyday people. They were composed orally, and singers often added or changed details to make the songs meaningful for their audience.
6. The way a word makes you feel
7. The literary device of ..... is giving non living things human like characteristics or qualities
8. The crocodile's teeth are white daggers.
9. A line or group of lines in a poem separated from other lines by extra white space
10. Groupings of words
11. Sounds that imitate meanings (pop, fizz, hiss)
12. In poetry, "feet" describes
13. Long narrative poems that are written in heightened language and tells the stories or the deeds of a heroic character
14. Rhyme Scheme:I love cats, and I like dogs.But most of allI like bats.
15. What term means a "voice" that talks to readers?
16. Address to an absent or imaginary person
17. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" uses what type of sound device?
18. Rhymes
19. "I'm so tired I could sleep a year" is an example of
20. Words that have a similarity in sound but are not exact rhymes.