Poetry Terms Quiz 192 (20 MCQs)

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1. Conversation between two fictitious speakers
2. What is the purpose of a line in a poem?
3. When a line breaks before completing a grammatical unit that can stand on its own
4. I know I'm going somewhere, and I can hardly wait, Somewhere's not the sort of placewhere someone should be late What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
5. What is the term for when two (or more) lines of poetry end with words that rhyme?
6. Compares 2 things by saying one is the other
7. The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to (such as boom or splat)
8. Imaginative comparison without using like or as
9. An illustrator draws a picture of a person intently watching a bird fly overhead. What is the bird representing?
10. A group of related items in a poem is called what?
11. This is a composition in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
12. The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.
13. A purposeful exaggeration for emphasis or humor
14. "Your adventure would have been a dusty death if I'd not saved you." ~~ MEDEA
15. Could be a word, a phrase, or even a sentence; a verse in a poem
16. Rhythmical pattern in a poem
17. When there is repetition of words with the same BEGINNING sounds, it is .....
18. How is a poem divided?
19. Is the following line a simile OR metaphor?"My mom has a heart of gold."
20. "The cold, wet rain came down in buckets and drenched my clothes." is an example of