Poetry Terms Quiz 461 (20 MCQs)

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1. A song or poem that tells a story. They usually have a simple, steady rhythm and are passed on orally from one generation to the next. Some country and folk music songs that tell a story are ballads.
2. Identify the figurative language used below?Sean was so angry his mom suggested that he go to the park and blow off some steam, so he went to shoot hoops with his boys. Instead of Sean being mean like a snapping turtle he was as sweet as pie.
3. Deck; designated space for the performance of productions
4. ..... is when a non-human object is given human characteristics.
5. Identify the type of figurative language in the line below.Michael is so tall that is seemed like his legs stretched on for an eternity.
6. What is a Structured poem
7. Celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.
8. Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines with no set meter
9. Poetry that tells a story; it includes a beginning, middle, and end, and often has dialogue
10. An exaggeration made for effect.
11. The arrangement of words and lines on a page (in poetry)
12. A group of words arranged into a row
13. Which term refers to the act of giving human characteristics to objects or abstract ideas?
14. A prayer
15. Which pair of words gives the best example of a slant rhyme?
16. A word or phrase which means something different from its literal meaning
17. A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter with a definitive rhyme scheme is called
18. A word that imitates the sound it makes
19. Story told from a character within the story
20. Writing that is not poetry