Poetry Terms Quiz 373 (20 MCQs)

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1. The background/circumstances/setting of a word or event that helps clarify its meaning.
2. Beat of a poem that has a regular pattern when surveying the whole poem.
3. A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter, usually about love of someone or something
4. The repetitions of consonant sounds within a poem, such as Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
5. Comparing two things using the words like or as.ex. She was as tall as a skyscraper
6. They're strong as rocks.
7. A song like narrative (story) poem that uses rhyme. rhythm, and repetition.
8. What is the most common form of poetry?
9. An unrhymed poem consisting of three lines, with each line having a 5-, 7-, 5-syllable pattern.
10. A stanza made up of two lines is called .....
11. True or false:Rhyme only happens with ending consonant sounds and not ending vowel sounds.
12. A reader's written comments on a poem
13. "I just got a new set of wheels"If someone used this phrase to describe getting a new car, what kind of figurative language are they using?
14. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem
15. The word choice of the author.
16. The way a poems words and lines are laid out on the page
17. An exaggeration
18. A comparison of two totally different things that does not use like or as
19. She is as mean as a snake!
20. Who has a chance of winning the NBA championship this year?