Poetry Terms Quiz 263 (20 MCQs)

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1. Repeating the same beginning sound in more than two words
2. Which of these words is an "adjective?"
3. Excessive pride and arrogance
4. Literature that is not poetry; ex:most essays, short stories, novels, and plays
5. Addressing someone absent or dead or nonhuman as if that person or thing were present and could reply.
6. "She smells as sweet as a rose" is an example of
7. A stanza or poem that contains 8 lines
8. Which term means:a short poem of songlike quality
9. The rising and falling of the voice when reading a poem
10. You should ALWAYS pause at the end of every line in a poem
11. A line break is the closing on one line and the start of another.
12. An expression in which the meaning cannot be taken as literally true
13. Repetition of beginning consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words
14. A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (like lines and stanzas).
15. A figure of speech in which in which two things are compared using like or as.
16. Is like a poem's paragraph; it is a group of verses bound together to form one section of a poem
17. Use of words, places, characters, or objects to mean something beyond the literal
18. A genre of literature that uses the way words look and sound (also known as rhythm) to transmit meaning to the reader.
19. The "ideas, thoughts, connections, associations "implied by the words in a poem are called:
20. Comparing two unlike things using "is" or "was"