Poetry Terms Quiz 95 (20 MCQs)

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1. "The familiar tang of his grandmother's cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth." Which of the following terms best defines this statement?
2. Descriptive words that appeal to the five senses Ex. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."
3. In the book Animal Farm, each character represents a real person from history and the story matches the real historical events
4. The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text is
5. ..... is poetry that does not follow any particular rhyme scheme or pattern.
6. The attitude a writer takes toward a subject.
7. Language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary, literal meaning of words.
8. A set pattern of beats in lines of poetry to create rhythm.
9. How many lines do Haiku poems have?
10. Figures of speech that compares two unlike things, using the words like or as
11. Form that has a rhythm like every day speech, with no regular patterns of rhyme
12. Extreme exaggeration used to make a point
13. Which term means:a mournful poem
14. The physical structure of the poem:the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition.
15. What is an example of connotation for the word summer?
16. BOOM! CRASH! BANG! What type of figurative language is this?
17. A stanza is best defined as .....
18. A two line poem and the last word of each line rhymes; usually the lines have the same number of syllables.
19. "The scrumptious desserts were calling out my name" is an example of .....
20. What is the purpose of repetition in poetry?