Poetry Terms Quiz 389 (20 MCQs)

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1. The pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of each line, labeled with an uppercase letter.
2. Which poetry term is being used in the following line:'Buzz, hiss, pop'?
3. Groups of lines
4. A long poem with a serious theme usually written to honor people or events
5. How many steps in Mr. Voyak's study plan?
6. What term means:a narrative poem of popular origin
7. The speaker or narrator of a poem who is doing the talking-often not the poet
8. How are stanzas separated?
9. An important message or lesson that an author wants to share either implicitly or explicitly about people or life
10. Which device is used in each example below?Good as goldBusy beeLiving the life
11. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem excerpt? Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
12. A single row of words (like a sentence)
13. Linking words by repeating similar initial sounds
14. A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn
15. What is the definition of oxymoron?Ex:icy hot
16. "Eeny meeny miny moe; catch a tiger by its toes" is an example of:
17. The devoted father was a rock for his family
18. The main idea or point of a text.
19. A figure of speech where words are not used in their literal sense, but rather in a figurative sense
20. Giving an inanimate objects human characteristics