Poetry Terms Quiz 316 (20 MCQs)

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1. Repetition of sounds at the end of words, identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem, but not always
2. What is the topic of a Haiku?
3. Language used in writing to make it more expressive
4. Words that sound the same
5. Play on words that makes a funny effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings
6. The use of words which imitate sounds
7. This is is the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.
8. What kind of poem is 'Porphyria's Lover'?
9. Comparing two things without the use of "like" or "as"
10. It was July, and the sun toasted the emerald grass until it smelled of warmth and green and life. It was July, and my heart soaked up the air warmth until it sang of joy and love and life. How many stanzas in the poem above?
11. A pleasant combination or agreeable sounds.
12. An exaggerated statement or claim.
13. When something is said in a book that is in the further it is .....
14. A poem with no specific rhyme scheme but usually in iambic pentameter/
15. A process in which you look for things that are the same. (2 or more things)
16. What poetic device is exemplified by the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword"
17. (BAM! Splat. SHHHHHH!)
18. Poems free of rules and patterns
19. What are sound devices?
20. Which is the correct defintion of Couplet?