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Poetry Terms Quiz 366 (20 MCQs)

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1. It is the use of rhyming words at the end of two or more lines of poetry.
2. McDonald's is an inexpensive meal. If you change the word inexpensive to cheap, the word now has a ..... connotation.
3. A literary form that combines the precise meanings of words with their emotional associations. When you read poetry, consider the poem's voice, structure, and sound.
4. What is a comparison of two things. Does NOT use like or as. Ex:She was a robot at work.
5. A term used in poetry to refer to lines that end without punctuation and without completing a sentence or clause.
6. A narrative poem composed of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming a-b-a-b. Ballads may use refrains. Examples: "Jackaroe, " "The Long Black Veil"
7. When the opposite of what you expect happens. For example:A mechanic whose car is falling apart
8. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
9. The organization of the parts of the poem are referred to as
10. A POET is a person who writes poetry.
11. Choose the simile
12. Read the sentence below. The word tranquil has a ..... connotation.The baby looked tranquil as he slept.
13. Two or more different or opposing ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a story or poem so they can be compared or contrasted.light vs. darkTwo siblings in a story are opposites-one is always good and one is always evil.A butler spends his days in a beautiful mansion dressed in a tuxedo, but returns home to a closet-sized apartment in a rundown part of town.
14. What is the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse? Ex (AABB)
15. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a lyric poem
16. A simile is when .....
17. The freshman class is the largest by student count. Which is the second largest?
18. A short poem that expressed the thoughts of a single speaker.
19. A comparison between two unlike things without using like or as
20. A free-form poem, which has no particular structure or rhythm. It does not have regular rhymes, and the lines may be different lengths and have different patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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