Poetry Terms Quiz 52 (20 MCQs)

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1. The following are examples of what? Student teacher, jumbo shrimp, larger half, seriously funny
2. An object which carries more meaning than simply the dictionary definition.
3. What is the correct term for the following definition? The use of words that imitate sounds:buzz, screech, hiss, bang, pow, boom, etc.
4. Has little or no pre-established form or guidelines:
5. All night long with rush and lull/ The rain keep drumming on the roof
6. When something represents a bigger idea
7. Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
8. Her eyes dance in the moonlight, is an example of:
9. The number of beats/syllables in a line of poetry
10. How many lines does a limerick have?
11. What's the rhyme scheme?You just want attention, you don't want my heartMaybe you just hate the thought of me with someone newYeah, you just want attention, I knew from the startYou're just making sure I'm never gettin' over you
12. Written with "he or she or they" as the subject; The narrator and reader are outside the story. Pronouns:he, she, it, they, them, him, her, his, hers, its
13. A nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
14. Repetition of the same sounds in a line
15. Repetition of consonant sounds in a given group of words close together. (Initial/beginning sounds).
16. Comparison between 2 unlike things using like or as
17. ..... is a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions.
18. A comparison between two things WITHOUT the words "like" or "as" .
19. The lesson you learn from a piece of writing is called the .....
20. Which of the following pairs of words rhyme?