Poetry Terms Quiz 115 (20 MCQs)

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1. Helps the reader picture ordinary things in new ways. Is not literally true.
2. The use of parts of a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter Adds balance and rhythm "Easy come, easy go."
3. What is the pattern of rhymes in a poem called?
4. Uses like or as to compare two things
5. Diction is the literary term that means
6. The crazy car is colorful.
7. Define juxtaposition
8. A quatrain is a group of how many lines?
9. An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or humor
10. A passage repeated at regular intervals with variations, usually in a poem or song
11. Repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words.
12. What type of rhyme do we see in this poem?"I take it you already know/Of tough and bough and cough and dough?/Others may stumble, but not you/On hiccough, thorough, lough and through/"
13. Language that appeals to the senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell).
14. What is the feeling the audience gets from reading a poem?
15. In a poem, what do you call the appearance of the words on the page?
16. What does a snake symbolize?
17. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables measured in feet
18. A poem with NO pattern or rhyming words
19. Choose the sentence that is literal
20. This is another name for the Shakespearean sonnet.