Poetry Terms Quiz 496 (20 MCQs)

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1. I wish that date would fade from memory.
2. A poetic device where the writer addresses a person or thing that isn't present with an exclamation.
3. What rhyme scheme is an ode?
4. A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration or overstatement
5. A figure of speech in which an exaggerated statement is made.
6. Figurative language in which a paradox contains a direct contradiction. Ex:Jumbo shrimp
7. The author's attitude or feeling about the text.
8. What is the poet's attitude about the subject or topic in a poem?
9. Identify what type of figurative language the following sentence displays.Her eyes were diamonds in the moonlight.
10. The individual parts of a poem are its .....
11. Most monsters don't mind making messes.
12. Language that is imaginative and goes beyond the literal meanings of words to create imagery
13. Two words placed close together which are contradictory, yet have truth in them
14. Giving inanimate objects human qualities
15. A fourteen lined poem, usually written in iambic pentameter
16. How the writer feels about what he/she is writing is .....
17. A speaker or writer's choice of words
18. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem excerpt? And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
19. A story or poem's message about life or human nature
20. Simple Simon sighed after he slipped on the sidewalk.