Poetry Terms Quiz 176 (20 MCQs)

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1. Basic unit of a poem
2. Narrative poetry is like narrative writing. Both tell a
3. A folk ballad is a oral tradition.
4. A stanza or poem with 4 lines, usually with alternate rhymes
5. Words that have the same or similar ending sounds.
6. A form of lyric poetry; has 14 lines and 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
7. The speaker in the poem
8. Occurs when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond.Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art ..... "Bright Star" by John Keats
9. A humorous, rhyming, 5-line poem with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme
10. A poem's paragraphs are called .....
11. Repetition of an initial word in successive lines of poetry.
12. A poem that expresses the personal thought and feelings of a speaker.
13. A poem with no regular rhythm or rhyme
14. Sound words
15. The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words (dark, dastardly deeds)
16. Pam was skinny enough to jump through a keyhole.
17. When the SOUND of a word imitates its meaning.
18. A comparison between two dissimilar things that is stated as fact
19. Meter, as defined in poetry, is:
20. What is the definition of repetition?