Poetry Terms Quiz 292 (20 MCQs)

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1. Dimeter
2. What type of rhyme do we see in Black Thought's "Respond/React" ?Slow up before you get dropped and closed like a caption/ Fractional kids don't know the time for action/ Styles got the rhythm that of an Anglo-Saxon/ Round of applause, an avalanche of clappin/that's what happen, now what's your reaction?/
3. The moral life lesson from a piece of literature
4. Rhymes at the end of lines.
5. Group of lines that form verses
6. The voice that narrates the events of the poem is called .....
7. A truth, lesson or message about life in a poem or other literary text.
8. A stanza containing 4 lines
9. Two words within a line that rhyme
10. A group of lines in a poem that are set off by blank lines
11. A type of sonnet that consists of an octave and a sestet; a break in thought or a turn comes between the two.
12. What kind of rhyme is employed in this lines from a poem:It is fallible men who make the law.This maybe a flaw, but there's no other way.
13. The grass was dancing in the wind is an example of
14. Poetry with no regular rhyme pattern or rhythm.
15. Elements such as rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and onomatopoeia-gives poetry a musical quality are .....
16. Giving human qualities or characteristics to nonhuman things
17. A pause that occurs within a line of poetry, usually marked by some form of punctuation such as a full stop, comma or dash is called .....
18. A form of poetry that tells a story, often using elements of a narrative such as narrator, plot, setting, and characters
19. A sound device in which sounds, words or phrases are repeated to emphasize a point is called .....
20. Which poetry term is used in the following line:'The wind whispered through the trees'?