Poetry Terms Quiz 45 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where you're madder than I amI'm with you in Rocklandwhere you must feel very strangeI'm with you in Rocklandwhere you imitate the shade of my motherI'm with you in Rockland
2. My brother is as stubborn as a mule. Is this an example of
3. An expression of ideas or feeling in words, usually having a form, rhythm, and rhyme.
4. Dan does not like donuts! This is an example of .....
5. Groupings of lines (couplet, tercet, quatrain, etc)
6. The oldest form of narrative verse that has a strong beat.
7. A phrase like "Oh God, why is my life so gloomy?" is an example of which of these:
8. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a ballad
9. The tone conveys
10. What is juxtaposition?
11. Examples of this include: "hissed, " "crackle, " and "splash."
12. A direct comparison of two things that are not really that does not use like or as
13. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language.
14. A humorous yet frequently bawdy verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba.
15. ..... is a poem that tells a story and has a plot, setting, and characters.
16. Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
17. The Tortoise and the Hare is an example of .....
18. Poem with 14 lines, 10 syllables in each line, and often uses the rhyme scheme of ABAB-CDCD-EFEF-GG.
19. A person who writes a poem
20. How a poem is organized