Poetry Terms Quiz 446 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the name for a four-line stanza?
2. "My friend is as sharp as a pencil, " is an example of which poetic device?
3. "Their woes are over soon. Mine are not. Jason's are not." ~~ MEDEA
4. "I'm car sick, open a window I'm car sick, take this pill I'm car sick, rest your eyes I'm car sick, shhh be still" is an example of
5. A rhymed pair of lines. A couplet can be written in any rhythmic pattern.
6. Lines or words that are repeated to stress the importance:
7. What type of figurative language is a word imitating a sound?
8. Serves the same function as the narrator in a story:to "tell" the poem.
9. The repetition of consonant sounds (every sound besides vowel sounds) in neighboring words THAT DO NOT RHYME.
10. A group of lines arranged together that are set off from other groups by a space
11. Given human characteristics or traits to non-human things.
12. A comparison giving human-like characteristics to a nonhuman or nonliving object.
13. Use of an object, person, place, or event that has both a meaning in itself and stands for something larger
14. "as light as a feather"What figurative language type would this be?
15. Repeated line or lines in a poem or song.
16. Kevin's shades were drawn. The room was dark and he liked it that way. After the day he had, darkness was a welcomed friend. He felt like sunshine was so far away. The writer is creating a-
17. Lines grouped together like a paragraph in a poem
18. Which type of poetry does not adhere to a specific rhyme scheme or meter?
19. A musical quality of a poem.
20. A ..... is a comparison that DOES NOT use the words "like" or "as."