Poetry Terms Quiz 379 (20 MCQs)

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1. A paragraph in a poem is called a ..... ?
2. "sight, sound, touch, taste, smell" are the five senses that come along with:
3. Repetition of initial consonant sound
4. A group of lines in poetry is called a
5. Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as" or "seems"
6. Which term means the repetition of vowel sounds in words?
7. A humorous poem that has five lines, an "AABBA" rhyming pattern and a specific rhythm is called a .....
8. The stressed and unstressed beats within a poem
9. The sixteenth president of the United States (1861-1865), who was commander-in-chief of the Union troops during the American
10. When one line of poetry ends without a pause or punctuation and then continues to the next line.
11. Which of the following defines PENTAMETER?
12. A comparison that DOESN'T use like or as
13. A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form.
14. In a poem, what do you call a group of words on one line? It's usually numbered.
15. Shows the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. Examples of rhyme pattern are:1 & 3 rhyme and 2 & 4 rhyme
16. Repetition of beginning sounds
17. A figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other. An example of antithesis is "To err is human, to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope)
18. Choose the onomatopoeia.
19. A reference, usually to another literary work
20. A figure of speech that uses a word or phrase to describe something that it does literally apply to in order to showa similarityis called