Poetry Terms Quiz 221 (20 MCQs)

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1. Painting a picture with words is called
2. If one uses hyperbole, he or she tends to .....
3. The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas used for emphasis in writing
4. What is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words?
5. A group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph or verse
6. Which term means the author's/poet's attitude about a topic (positive, negative, or neutral)?
7. A 5 line poem with a set structure.
8. The poet's attitude in style or expression toward the subject or towards the audience (ex) loving, ironic, bitter, solemn)
9. In the poem, repeating the phrase "kingdom by the sea" is an example of .....
10. What is it called when words share an accented vowel sound and succeeding consonant sound?
11. Imagery only appeals to the sense of sight.
12. The following lines are examples of:But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.
13. The author's attitude.
14. An indirect or passing reference
15. If something is fragile it is
16. The Odyssey begins ..... years after the Trojan War ended.
17. Something like "Civil War" is an example of .....
18. A poem in the form of an address to a particular subject
19. Using like or as to compare two unlike things in an effort to describe something
20. The repetition of vowel sounds in words that do not end with the same consonant