Poetry Terms Quiz 463 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the tone of the following sentence?The front door burst open as the toddler gleefully jumped into his awaiting father's arms.
2. A poem usually told in the first person that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the speaker is called-
3. A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit ..... comparable to a paragraph if it were prose .....
4. Dora drew her dog on the door.
5. What term means the message the poet is trying to convey?
6. The correspondence of sound between words or the ending of words, often used in poetry
7. An extreme exaggeration used for effect
8. Which poetry term is being used in the following line:'The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.'?
9. How does Porphyria enter the cottage?
10. Hyperboles are phrases that
11. Which vocabulary word is being defined? Poems are shaped to look like their subjects?
12. A group of related lines in a poem is called .....
13. A rhyme scheme is:
14. A..... verse poem does NOT use rhyme or patterns.Show Answers
15. The person that writes poetry
16. The literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words-the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text.
17. Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning-little relevancy bore;For we cannot help agreeing that no living human beingEver yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door-Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore." Which line contains internal rhyme?
18. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry is called .....
19. What two things are being compared in the following metaphor? The crab was a dancing pair of scissors, clicking across the sand.
20. The main unit of a poem is a