Poetry Terms Quiz 364 (20 MCQs)

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1. Something that stands for something else
2. A group of lines in a poem, often separated by a space and sharing a specific pattern or rhyme scheme.
3. ..... are words with the same ending sounds at the end of lines or stanzas
4. Words that rhyme inside a line.
5. The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a line or stanza to add emphasis. An example:At that mat sat Pat who liked to bat.
6. "O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won." is an example of:
7. Descriptive language that invokes any of the five senses to create a set of mental images for the reader
8. An oxymoron is .....
9. A group of words in a line in a poem
10. Giving non-human things human characteristics or abilities
11. An intentional contradiction between apparent and actual meaning
12. True or False:All rhyming words have to have the same end spelling.
13. A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. 'It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.'.
14. The trees danced under the starry skies is an example of ..... ?
15. What is a group of words aligned in one row?
16. A short, unrhymed Japanese poetic form with three lines of five syllable, seven syllables, and five syllables
17. Group of lines that are set off visually from other lines in the poem like a paragraph in literature
18. The felt emotion by the reader of the poem is called:
19. Giving reference to a movie, book, or common phrase that most people know
20. End rhymes that are not exact, but approximate.