Poetry Terms Quiz 28 (20 MCQs)

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1. Connotation is?
2. An art concerned almost exclusively with live performances in which the action is primarily planned to create a coherent and significant sense of drama
3. Define METAPHOR-
4. Danny's room is a pig-sty.
5. A comparison between two unlike things where one thing is similar to another is called?For example, "Life is like a box of chocolates"
6. When the first sound of a word is repeated in one line of a poem
7. What type of figurative language is this statement:This bag weighs a ton.
8. A recognizable pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress
9. A repetition of the same/similar sounds at the ends of lines are .....
10. Sounds for a soft, smooth, pleasant effect
11. The poem is about a chicken who doesn't want to hatch
12. The pattern of rhyme in a poem
13. Simile or Metaphor? He spit out his teeth like stones.
14. Which of these is not an example of figurative language?
15. Repetition of a vowel sound at the beginning of words used closely to one another
16. "The snow was a white blanket over the yard" is an example of what?
17. The distinctive way the words are arranged on the page
18. A basic unit of a line of poetry, usually comprised of two syllables, is called this:
19. A metaphor that last more than a few lines and keeps being expanded on.
20. "One of the fish took fire / and burned in the basket with a high flame" ~~ as the fish represents the princess in MEDEA