Poetry Terms Quiz 438 (20 MCQs)

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1. Definition:a section of a poem with lines grouped together
2. Your ..... are your wishes for certain things to happen.
3. A ..... is a group of lines together like a paragraph.
4. Two words at the end of a line of poetry that end in sounds that almost rhyme
5. How many syllables does this line have? A gash, a rash, and purple bumps.
6. An example of personification is
7. An imagitive comparison without using like or as in a literary work, such as a novel or poem, that isn't just used in one line but is extended over multiple lines or throughout the word.
8. Language in which the words are meant to be interpreted imaginatively is .....
9. "A person, place, object, animal, or activity that stands for something beyond itself" is called .....
10. What would be an example of anaphora
11. Where did Haikus originate?
12. "Lightning danced across the sky, " is an example of which poetic device?
13. Kaleo runs like a cheetah. Metaphor?
14. A recurrence of a rhythmic pattern in poetry
15. When you use an exaggeration for effect, like, "I saw The Black Panther a million times this weekend."
16. Using "figures of speech" to say something other than the literal meaning of the words
17. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two tings without using connecting words, such as "like" or "as" .Ex. Love is a battlefield.
18. The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. Creates a musical effect.
19. A poem's paragraph is called a .....
20. The beats of a poem