Poetry Terms Quiz 439 (20 MCQs)

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1. "The snow is a white blanket." and "She is an early bird."
2. What is it called when words or lines are used more than once in a poem?
3. Poetry with a strict meter but NO strict rhyme scheme
4. Paragraphing in poems
5. Identify the use of alliteration in the following line:'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
6. A part of a poem that is repeated multiple times is called:
7. A figure of speech in which an exaggerated statementis made
8. Is an event (there are multiple) in a script, is included in an act
9. Poems are meant to be read aloud.
10. Shakespear
11. Which term means the repeating of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?
12. "And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole; In the morning glad I see My foe outstrech'd beneath the tree" This stanza created from four lines is typically called a .....
13. Letters at the end of lines are used to represent this poetry term. One common pattern is a b a b
14. Words that sound like the noise they create
15. A fourteen line poem consisting of three quatrains and couplet.
16. A type of poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music. They are typically composed of 4 line stanzas that follow an ABCB rhyme scheme.
17. A comparison made between two things that are unalike using the word "like" or "as"
18. The following line is an example of which sound device? I think I like the bright, pink kite.
19. Person, Place, thing, or idea that stands for itself for something beyond itself (red, rose, dove cross)
20. A literary device that refers to the 5 senses is