Poetry Terms Quiz 363 (20 MCQs)

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1. "the jet is screaming across the sky" is an example of what?
2. The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together. The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls.
3. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without connecting words (such as "like" or "as").
4. Ball/crawl is an example of:
5. The rhyme scheme of a limerick is .....
6. A cheap bench seat at a sports arena, typically in an outdoor uncovered stand.
7. .....sonnet is rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg
8. The speaker is:
9. This can be the poet OR an invented character who has had an experience that is written about.
10. What is being compared in the following line? "Our hearts, though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums, are beating funeral marches to the grave." from "A Psalm of Life" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
11. Which type of poem is free from any specific rhythm, stanzas, or line measurements?
12. The breeze whispered through the trees
13. Using words that sound like their meanings
14. Josh acts like a clown to try to impress the ladies This is an example of .....
15. The comparison of two things that are not really alike by using the words like or as is called .....
16. Rhyme involving sounds that are similar but not exactly the same
17. It was raining cats and dogs this morning.
18. My dog died on my birthday causing me to feel .....
19. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem
20. Five feet in a line of poetry