Poetry Terms Quiz 482 (20 MCQs)

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1. Palindrome
2. A three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, it emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression
3. The use of specific objects or symbols to represent ideas
4. Repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the BEGINNING of at least two words in a line of poetry.
5. The central topic, subject, or message in a written work.
6. The characteristic way that a writer uses language to achieve certain effects
7. 'The car danced across the icy road' is an example of what?
8. Ode Poem
9. Which of the following terms is defined as:the effect of language in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated; or the effect of a situation in which the opposite of what one would have thought is actually what occurs
10. An address to an absent person, an abstraction, or an inanimate object as if it were able to reply
11. The person who wrote the poem; the author of the poem
12. A group of lines in a poem. People often mistakenly call them paragraphs.
13. Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single person; usually musical
14. "There was a Young Lady whose nose, Was so long that it reached to her toes;"
15. A 5 line, rhymed, rhythmic poem that is usually humorous.
16. Read the following sentence: "I am as smart as a fox." This is an example of a .....
17. She tried to make a short version of the story or ..... it.
18. ..... is a big exaggeration, usually with humor.
19. What is a word that represents a sound?
20. The use of repeated words, phrases, images, or symbols