Poetry Terms Quiz 357 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which choice best represents the central idea of the poem?
2. Comparisons between unrelated things or ideas to reveal the familiar in surprising ways. Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, imagery, and allusion are all types of this.
3. Which is Hyperbole
4. Words that imitate the sound they're naming
5. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping, at my chamber door." Edgar Allan Poe
6. The repeating of vowel sounds
7. Poetry with no regular meter or rhyme scheme
8. Repeating consonant sounds is called
9. Descriptions that appeal to the five senses and create vivid word pictures
10. An author's attitude toward his or her subject.
11. The use of words whose sound makes one think of its meaning
12. A group of words that are repeated several times in a poem (like the chorus of a song)
13. A generally recurring subject or idea noticeably evident in a literary work
14. A Rhyme that occurs within the lines
15. Intentional reuse of sound, word, or phrase to emphasize an idea
16. A 14-line poem with a set rhyme scheme and a particular syllable pattern called iambic pentameter. Different types of sonnets have different rhyme schemes.
17. Syntax
18. "The rain was like a little mouse"
19. In many folktales, the coyote represents evil. In this example, the coyote is an example of a .....
20. Lazy leaping lizards like licking luscious lollipops-this is an example of .....