Poetry Terms Quiz 32 (20 MCQs)

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1. What do you call an expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression. It means something other than what it actually says.
2. The life lesson that can be learned from the poem; the overall message
3. Mary, Mary, quite contrary .....
4. A stanza is made up of .....
5. The use of any element of language ..... a sound, word, phrase or sentence-used more than once.
6. A writing technique in which a word or phrase is repeated
7. Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
8. The creating and artistic intelligence that we recognize behind any speaker
9. Descriptive words or phrases that recreate sensory experiences for the reader.
10. An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true and is not meant to be taken literally
11. This is the use of words to imitate sounds
12. Is this line written in iambic pentameter? One must have a mind of winter
13. An ..... means a poem says less than it means. It can sometimes coexist with verbal irony.
14. The repetition of a consonant sound at any place in a series of words.
15. "O my Love is like a red, red rose" is an example of
16. The author's use of description and words to create pictures in the reader's mind is called .....
17. What is an example of a hyperbole?
18. Symbol
19. A direct comparison of two UNLIKE things. (Ex. All the world's a stage, and we are merely players" or "His tears were a river flowing from her cheeks"
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