Poetry Terms Quiz 211 (20 MCQs)

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1. ..... poems do not rhyme or follow patterns (do not follow any rules of poetry)
2. What is poetry that does not follow specific rules, styles, or formats, such as rhyming or patterns?
3. Five line poem or stanzas with rhyme scheme AABBA
4. Non-rhyming iambic pentameter
5. What is an autobiographical poem
6. The speaker's attitude toward the subject of the poem
7. A musical quality in language based on repetition
8. The repetition of the same beginning sound, usually a consonant, in a phrase or line of poetry is called .....
9. Complete this famous line ..... "May the be with you.
10. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next
11. A longer poem that tells a story is known as a .....
12. Roses are red, Violets are blue. I wish you could see How much I love you! What sound device is indicated by the highlighted words?
13. A writing technique in which similar sounds are at the beginning of words
14. Words whose sounds make you think of their meaning
15. Which technique is illustrated in the following:Two hawks soar and dive peacefully in the wind.A bird, like a flute, sings to a child.The hillside sits as still as a statueAs the great oak watches quietly in the wild.
16. ..... is often funny and a joke, but it is always a play on the multiple meanings or spellings of a word.
17. A six-line stanza
18. What is the allusion? To Jake, her hair seemed like the Nile-sparkling and endless.
19. In ..... poems, the first letter of each line spells out a word or saying.
20. A PAIR of rhyming LINES that form a complete THOUGHT