Poetry Terms Quiz 257 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which figurative device compares two seemingly unlike things?
2. Consonance is the repetition of the same consonant or consonant pattern two or more times in short succession.
3. His new car was as fast as my dad's truck.
4. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem extract 'My Phone'?
5. Shifts in poems are similar to the climax in a story because
6. Doesn't follow regular meterical patterns
7. The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song
8. Rhyming that occurs at the end of lines of poetry.
9. The use of the same word or phrase multiple times
10. Language that helps a reader recreate, in his or her mind, what the writer is describing.
11. Which of these is a good "symbol" for love?
12. The measured arrangement of sounds/beats of a poem
13. Which kind of poemspells out a piece of a word at the beginning of each line?
14. The literary term "diction" refers to
15. Haiku was first written in
16. Chocolate candy is sweet and yummyIt goes down smoothly in my tummy!
17. A winner of a spelling bee failing a spelling test.
18. Version of a metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines
19. The poet's choice of words
20. Directly compares unlike things (one thing is another, no like or as)