Poetry Terms Quiz 54 (20 MCQs)

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1. Reference to a well known person, event, place, literary work or work of art.
2. A term in basketball where one player dunks emphatically on an opposing player
3. All of the following terms are shown EXCEPT which one?"I looked onwards in awe and said teach me.Teach me to fly through the air like the first flight of pegasus."
4. Ex:an olive branch usually represents the idea of peace.
5. An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. For example, a ring represents marriage, faithfulness, and/or a promise.
6. Why is personification used in poetry and what effect does it create?
7. This literary technique is used in poetry to convey feeling and emotion and to set the mood for the work. It can be achieved through word choice, the grammatical arrangement of words (syntax), imagery, or details that are included or omitted
8. A collection of two or more lines in a poem is called a
9. Recurring (over and over again) identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines of verse. For example:may, play, lay
10. A group of words in a row; the unit of a poem
11. ..... is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
12. A couplet consists of
13. A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well
14. * A poem that does not follow a consistent rhythm or rhyme* These poems focus on imagery, word choice and figurative language free from traditional structure.
15. This is when one thing takes the place of something else like an idea.
16. Poetry that does not rhyme and does not follow any specific structure
17. A comparison of two unlike things, without using like or as
18. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
19. The author's attitude in a piece of literature
20. Paragraphs in poems are called what?