Poetry Terms Quiz 494 (20 MCQs)

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1. Define Punctuation
2. A short poem of songlike quality is a limerick.
3. An intricate, extended, or far-fetched metaphor or simile that arouses a feeling of surprise, shock, or amusement.
4. Using like or as to compare something
5. An author's word choice
6. A section of a novel is called .....
7. "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams, And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out. This section of the poem is written in lines of two that rhyme, which is called .....
8. Compare 2 unlike objects without "like" or "as"
9. Comparing two unlike things saying one actually is another
10. Parallel Structure
11. A stanza that has four lines.
12. Directions:Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. Paul Laurence Dunbar- "We Wear the Mask" We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, ..... This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with countless subtleties.Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, whileWe wear the mask.We smile, but, O great Christ, our criesTo thee from tortured souls arise.We sing, but oh the ground is vileBeneath our feet, and long the mile;But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! #2 The people in the poem use a masquerade to
13. A feeling the author creates
14. Poetry that relays the speaker's personal feelings
15. Descriptive language that creates word pictures
16. A thing that stands for and represents itself and something else.
17. What does "allusion" mean?
18. "I throw down so hard, the fiberglass trembles"
19. How a poem or text appears to be organized on papers; its shape
20. Word association