Poetry Terms Quiz 34 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following describes the language or word choice of a poet?
2. Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuseTill the conversion of the Jews.(Andrew Marvell, "To his Coy Mistress" ) Our hands were firmly cemented.(John Donne, "The Ecstasy" )
3. SPLAT! RING! CRASH! are examples of .....
4. A metrical unit of two syllables
5. A humorous poem that contains 5 lines and rhyme scheme aabba.
6. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem, set apart by a line of space
7. This sentence appeals to which sense:The tree bark was rough against her skin.
8. The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds: "Thou still unravished bride of quietness, / Thou foster child of silence and slow time" ("Ode to a Grecian Urn, " John Keats).
9. The main unit of a poem
10. A series of lines grouped together in order to divide a poem. They look like little paragraphs.
11. The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginnings of words, as in tongue twisters
12. Carpe Diem
13. That spider was bigger than an entire mansion!
14. A limerick has how many lines?
15. Allusions are based primarily on
16. "So Eden sank to grief" is an example of .....
17. Sally had a smile that rivaled that of the Mona Lisa
18. A writing technique in which similar sounds at the beginning of words is repeated.
19. Which is the correct defintion end-stopped line?
20. The repetition of consonant sounds