Poetry Terms Quiz 128 (20 MCQs)

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1. An expression that means something other than the literal meaning
2. A repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
3. A group of lines (like a paragraph)
4. Choose the example with alliteration
5. A form of writing that often uses imagery, rhyme or rhythm to create an emotional response
6. What do we call sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch
7. A figure that directly addresses an absent imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love
8. Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds
9. Definition:is a pair of rhyming lines, usually the same length and meter
10. This is when one thing is compared to something else ..... by saying that one thing IS something else.
11. Lines grouped together in a poem are called a
12. Rhythmic, compressed language that appeals to emotion or the imagination
13. The musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllablesis called
14. Poems that do not have a rhyme scheme
15. The rhyming sounds at the end of each line of poetry. The first one is represented by a lower case "a, " the next by "b, " the third by "c, " and so on.
16. ..... is a poem that does not have a regular rhyming pattern.
17. What makes up the structure of a poem
18. What word describes two feet of verse?
19. Which of the following is not an example of imagery?
20. A comparison of two or more unlike things in order to show a similarity in their characteristics; there are two main types:-simile-metaphor