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Poetry Terms Quiz 430 (20 MCQs)

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1. A writer's attitude toward what they are writing about
2. Read the following stanza and decide which two poetic devices the author uses. "I am Super Sampson Simpson, I'm superlatively strong. I like to carry elephants, I do it all day long. I pick up half a dozen and hoist them in the air. It's really somewhat simple, for I have strength to spare."
3. Languagethat appeals to the senses.
4. A Japanese verse form most often composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. It often features an image, or a pair of images, meant to depict the essence of a specific moment in time.
5. Replacing a word or idea with a different word that is closely related.
6. Comparison of two things unlike not using like or as.
7. The front desk was my chocolate notebook and I was not letting it go away. No way.This means:
8. Which of the following is composed of five three-line tercets and a final four-line quatrain?
9. "like" or "as" comparison
10. What is the best definition of an idiom?
11. Words that sound like the noise that they make
12. I balked when I saw the tall cop in the hall; I knew he was looking for you.
13. Two lines that form a unit in a poem. Usually they rhyme and have the same rhythm.
14. Combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox, as in the word bittersweet or the phrase living death
15. This type of poem tells a story and is often set to music.
16. Poetry that does not follow a particular rhythm or rhyme pattern.
17. The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience. They sometimes appeal to the senses ..... sight, taste, smell, hearing, and touch.
18. Two accented syllables together (KNICKKNACK)(bring your spondee to the picnic)/two unaccented syllables together (in the)
19. A Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
20. An iamb consists of syllables that are
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