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Poetry Terms Quiz 102 (20 MCQs)

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1. Words "murmur, " "gargle, " and "rumble, " "click, " and "vroom" are examples of what literary device?
2. The following is an example of what? Pitter patter
3. Lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme.
4. "In his poem "Out, Out, " Robert Frost describes a boy who has cut himself with a saw holding his bleeding hand up "as if to keep/The life from spilling." This is an example of metonymy. What is life referring to?
5. What is the definition of a metaphor?
6. Which of these is the speaker of a poem?
7. A repeated passage
8. Who is the person that writes the poem?
9. Who does the captain in the poem "Oh Captain, My Captain" symbolize?
10. These poems use schemes such as ABAB or ABCB
11. Language that means something beyond the literal meaning of the words on a page, it often involves a comparison ..... either stated or implied, a person who uses similes, metaphors, personifications, and hyperboles would be using this kind of language.
12. A stanza or poem that contains four lines
13. Letters of the alphabet are used to mark a poem's .....
14. Words that end in similar but not exact sounds (prove and love)
15. A verse or a set of verses repeated throughout a poem
16. "While I nodded, nearly napping ..... " is an example of .....
17. This ..... in a poem ..... is like a paragraph in an essay. It is one section of the poem, set apart from other sections by a blank line.
18. "Allen Iverson's crossover was so deadly, he could have set up his own podiatry practice"
19. What is "a 5-line, rhymed, rhythmic verse, usually humorous" ?
20. Poems that are shaped to look like their subjects
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