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Poetry Terms Quiz 350 (20 MCQs)

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1. The prominence or emphasis given to a syllable or word. In the word poetry, the accent (or stress) falls on the first syllable.
2. Techniques that create musical effects.
3. (Similar to a paragraph in an essay)
4. Which term describes the manner in which something is spoken?
5. Poetry that uses ordinary, everyday language is
6. Feeling or context of a word
7. A synonym for allusion is .....
8. Using a language element repeatedly is an example of .....
9. The use of language that gives words a meaning beyond their literal definition.
10. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words (as in sun and one)
11. Which figure of speech is exemplified by the phrase 'quiet as mice'?
12. Giving non-human things humanlike qualities
13. What is the pattern of rhyming words in a poem?
14. What term is described as a figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another?
15. Opposites that are nonetheless true
16. Jack London used this literary term in The Call of the Wild to make Buck seem like a human to the reader.
17. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem excerpt? Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;
18. Poetry that does not tell a story, but show feelings and emotions.
19. A comparison of two unlike items using the "like" or "as" .
20. The beat of the poem-the way the words go
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