Poetry Terms Quiz 451 (20 MCQs)

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1. ..... is the person in a play that is telling the story.
2. A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis
3. A metaphor that gives objects and animals human qualities
4. This is a lyric poem about a serious topic, usually written in a precise structure.
5. The word that makes the sound as its definition.
6. Words that appeal to a reader's fives senses:see, hear, smell, taste, touch-that create a picture in their mind.
7. A poem that does not rhyme is called .....
8. Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in 2 or more stressed syllables.
9. A free verse poem has.....
10. A basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables.
11. Discord is a(n)
12. The use of something concrete to represent something deeper or more abstract
13. A phrase or an expression (sometimes called figure of speech) that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. EX. "It's raining cats and dogs."
14. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. An example:Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope, Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope.
15. A section of a poem, ALSO types of poems
16. Rhythmic patterns in poetry are called
17. A group of words forming a phrase or sentence consisting of one or more lines repeated atintervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza
18. Please put away your paints and practice the piano.
19. Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter is
20. A large exaggeration