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Poetry Terms Quiz 29 (20 MCQs)

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1. Repetition of VOWEL SOUNDS at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE or END of at least two words in a line of poetry.
2. This type of narrative poetry was originally meant to be sung or recited.
3. Combination of two poems with alternating lines, usually involving a comparison or conversation
4. Couplet-two lines; triplet-three line; quatrain-four lines; cinquain-five lines
5. Combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox (example:the word "bittersweet")
6. The bank was overflowing with precious wildlife, a golden sun shadowed to the horizon. The water glistened as pelicans drank.
7. Use of words whose sounds echo their meanings
8. An extreme exaggeration
9. A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented (unstressed) syllable followed by an accented (stressed) one
10. Which of these is the correct definition of ambiguity?
11. Which word means:'To compare a non human object to an action that humans can do?'
12. A verse or piece of poetry having corresponding sounds at the ends of lines
13. The voice that "talks" to the reader, similar to the narrator in fiction. The speaker is not necessarily the poet.
14. A dentist with a bunch of cavities
15. What is a free verse poem?
16. This is the "beat" of the poem.
17. Giving non-human objects human qualities
18. Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme
19. "Caiden was as cool as a cucumber when he had to take his poetry test." is an example of a .....
20. You are as slow as a sloth
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