Poetry Terms Quiz 447 (20 MCQs)

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1. Long narrative usually about a hero's deeds.
2. A word that mimics an actual sound
3. Metaphor, simile, and personification are all examples of .....
4. The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject.
5. I wandered lonely as a cloud
6. A long narrative poem about medieval culture and secret love.
7. How many lines per stanza does tercet
8. What is this stanza's rhyme scheme?Then suddenly one awful day, She heard the Magic Mirror say, "From now on Queen you're number two, Snow White is prettier than you!"
9. What gives nonhuman things human characteristics? Example:The waves dance along the shore.
10. A figure of speech that combines two words that contradict each other
11. That though they never equal stars in size
12. The feeling a literary work or passage evokes for the reader
13. "The western wave was all aflame.The day was well nigh done!" This is an example of a synecdoche in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. What does the "wave" refer to?
14. If I am being literal, I .....
15. What term refers to a type of metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables?
16. A poem that has no rhyme or meter is called a ..... verse poem.
17. What is the author's writing voice?
18. An extended comparison between two things where there are multiple things in common.
19. Which of these words is a "verb?"
20. "The tree whispered in the wind" is an example of which kind of figurative language?