Poetry Terms Quiz 185 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the rhyme scheme from Sonnet 30: " ..... thing may be told ..... should harden ice ..... with senseless cold ..... by wonderful device"
2. She was a night owl.
3. Poetry that expresses thoughts and feelings; songlike
4. Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines, widely used by Shakespeare
5. In which WWII event did Japan use the strategy of surprise attack to bomb the United States?
6. The repetition of the same vowel sounds within words
7. Iambic pentameter is how many syllables
8. Metaphor can be defined as:
9. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the rhythm of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
10. When rhyming words are at the ends of lines
11. My sister is a sloth in the morning. Is this an example of
12. The correspondence of sound between words or the ending of words, especially when these words are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
13. "Pop!" and "Splat!" are examples of-
14. What is the definition of free verse?
15. A group of lines in a poem (like a paragraph)
16. A comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use "like" or "as"
17. What is "the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse" ?
18. The candle flame danced in the dark.
19. A poem with a lack of strict structure; no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length or stanza pattern
20. A pattern of end rhymes (words at the end of a line) in a poem.