Poetry Terms Quiz 114 (20 MCQs)

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1. A group of lines placed together in a poem is a .....
2. Boom, buzz, pow, bang
3. An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference to literature, music, art, pop culture, the news, etc.
4. When rhyming words come at the ends of the lines. The most common type of poetic rhyme.
5. What type of poem tells a story?
6. Trochaic meter
7. The pattern of end rhymes, written out in letters (AABB)
8. "Plunk" is an example of what?
9. A writer's or speaker's choice of words and way of arranging the words in sentences
10. One thing that stands for something else is referred to as
11. Which word decribes a technique used by writers where a thing which ordinarily is known for one thing actually represents something completely different such as DIckinson's setting sun and Frost's two roads?
12. A section at the end of a book that serves as a comment or a conclusion to what has happened
13. True or false:every sonnet must contain exactly fourteen lines
14. A ..... in a poem is like a sentence in a paragraph.
15. Near rhyme in which the concluding consonant sounds are identical but not the vowels. Example:sun/noon, should/food, slim/ham.
16. The "speaker" in poetry refers to
17. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of 2 or more words.
18. Genre
19. Rhyme scheme involves the repetition of similar sounds at the ..... of lines of poetry.
20. Which figurative language is this an example of:My father told me that life is a journey.