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Poetry Terms Quiz 163 (20 MCQs)

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1. A formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person
2. The voice that talks to the reader, similar to the narrator in fiction.
3. The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem
4. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
5. The kind of poem that tells a story
6. A foot or beat of poetry consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The most natural and common kind of meter in English; it elevates speech to poetry. For example:deLIGHT, the SUN, forLORN, one DAY, reLEASE.
7. A four-line stanza of poetry, often with various rhyme schemes
8. What is the term for repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word repeated through a series of words that are close to each other?
9. What is a limerick?
10. His sorrow goes/ Like mountain snows/ In waters sweet and clear
11. She hung her head like a dying flower.
12. Jumbo shrimp is an example of what?
13. What is comparing two things that are not the same as if they were the same called?
14. "The big, bad bear scared all the baby bunnies by the bushes" is an example of:
15. Assonance and consonance are concerned about letters within a word while alliteration is concerned about the letters at the start of a word.
16. A unit of speech heard as a single sound; one "beat" of a word or phrase
17. Words that rhyme within one line of poetry.
18. A simile can be defined as .....
19. The "beat" of a poem
20. A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
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