Poetry Terms Quiz 323 (20 MCQs)

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1. True or false:A rhyme scheme has the following TWO characteristics:1) a pattern of rhyming words or sounds (usually end rhyme, but not always) 2)uses the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually "see" the pattern
2. The rhyming of the last words in the lines of poetry. (the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.)
3. The girl had fun playing in the sun
4. MAGGY'S SAGGY PANTS WERE BAGGY AND RAGGY.
5. What poetic device is used in the following example?"The leaves danced across the lawn"
6. A figure of speech where one word is substituted for another which it is closely associated. Example:In "the pen is mightier than the sword", pen means "the written word" and sword means "military might"
7. The use of words that imitate sounds or noises
8. The feeling created in the reader by a poem or story. Words, phrases, repetition, rhyme, and exaggeration all working together.
9. The denotation is the ..... meaning of a word.
10. Recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines of poetry.
11. Which word means the "paragraph" in poetry?
12. This is the continued use of the same rhyme or pattern
13. The attitude the writer takes toward a subject.
14. What is the opposite of personification?
15. A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or a poem, especially at the end of each stanza; a chorus.
16. A restatement of a text passage, or work giving the meaning in another form.
17. The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds
18. The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text. Ex. A worm named Maurice took the garden by storm.
19. A group of lines in a poem are .....
20. Appeals means that something is .....