Poetry Terms Quiz 66 (20 MCQs)

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1. Tells an entire story with a beginning, middle, and end; has character, setting, and plot
2. What is an object that represents something else?
3. Poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker; often in highly musical verse
4. An extremely popular form of literary device wherein the writer jumbles up parts of the word to create a new word
5. Ways of using words for the sound qualities they create. These can help convey the meaning and mood
6. Words that describe sounds
7. Words within the lines rhyme
8. He is as skinny as a stick. Is a ..... ?
9. Your pet turtle "ran away" .(really it died)
10. Poetry that tells a story in verse
11. A figure of speech in which an author or speaker purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme
12. Giving non-humans or abstract ideas, human qualities
13. Poor health Pretty ugly Passed Away Random order All of the following are oxymorons except .....
14. Which term means:a humorous rhymed verse form of five lines
15. The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sounds of what it describes
16. Repetition at the beginning of sentences
17. Which type of poem is without rhythm and does not follow regular rhyme scheme rules?
18. This is an example of:Mrs. Thull's teaching is terribly treturous.
19. A comparison of two seemingly unlike things using "like" or "as"
20. Which is the correct defintion of Personification?