Poetry Terms Quiz 362 (20 MCQs)

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1. The snow felt like daggers against my skin.
2. A two line unit in a poem, typically rhyming
3. What's the meaning of this hyperbole? "Shawn would move mountains for Angela."
4. Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
5. The recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses
6. A ballad is similar to a .....
7. A direct comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use like or as
8. What form of poetry expresses strong feelings, can rhyme, and is songlike?
9. Two words that have some sound in common but do not rhyme exactly
10. Unstressed syllables have more emphasis than stressed syllables.
11. Using the same words or phrases over and over
12. Rhyme that occurs within the same line in a poem or song lyrics
13. "The holy mountains flow up from the earth / The smoke of sacrifice flows up from the earth / The eagle and the wild swan fly up from the earth." ~~ MEDEA
14. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Marcello Maltese are examples of names with .....
15. A five line poem with rhymes in line 1, 2 and 5 and then another rhyme in lines 3 and 4 is known as a ..... (hint:usually humorous, quirky rhyme scheme)
16. "A piece of cake" "on the fence" "at the drop of a hat" are examples of
17. A pair of rhymed lines in a poem.
18. What words repeated in a poem?
19. Group of words arranged into a row
20. The snow is a white blanket is an example of a ..... ?