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Poetry Terms Quiz 146 (20 MCQs)

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1. The art of expressing one's thoughts in verse. Written in lines and stanzas, with a lot of white space on the page.
2. Something that stands for or represents something else
3. Uses words with identical end sound
4. Ideas and feelings associated with a word, as opposed to its dictionary definition
5. When Carrie Newcomer says, "Sunlight, and blueberries, Good dogs and wool socks" or "The smooth glassy calm of the morning pond, " she is appealing to your five senses which is called .....
6. This is an extreme exaggeration for dramatic effect.
7. ..... the pattern of rhyme formed by the end rhyme in a poem. The ..... is designated by the assignment of a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme.
8. A figure of speech that compares two unlike things that share similar characteristics (does not use "like" or "as" )
9. Use of any element of language more than once
10. The highest degree of an adjective or adverb or an exaggerated or hyperbolic expression
11. Cat, bat, hat, sat
12. A group of lines in poetry.
13. What type of poetry is this the definition for?A five-line, rhymed, rhythmic poem that is usually humorous.
14. A comparison without using the words like or as.
15. What poetic device is exemplified by the following phrase: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills." ?
16. Homework is a breeze, " is an example of which type of figurative language?
17. A kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet.
18. Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables. Typically about nature and use no rhyme scheme.
19. Two-line poems that match in rhyme and length.
20. The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line.
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