Poetry Terms Quiz 446 (20 MCQs)

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1. A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art is
2. Love is like a roseSometimes it dies, sometimes it growsBreak-ups are a lot like waterWhen they're ice coldthey are always harder
3. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG This is an example of a .....
4. "I love this game like the winter loves snow"
5. A longer direct comparison
6. How a text is organized
7. A figure of speech in which contradictory terms are combined is known as .....
8. The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line is
9. Poem that expresses the speaker's personal thoughts or feelings
10. Repetition of vowel sounds in words
11. What is the name for a four-line stanza?
12. "My friend is as sharp as a pencil, " is an example of which poetic device?
13. "Their woes are over soon. Mine are not. Jason's are not." ~~ MEDEA
14. "I'm car sick, open a window I'm car sick, take this pill I'm car sick, rest your eyes I'm car sick, shhh be still" is an example of
15. A rhymed pair of lines. A couplet can be written in any rhythmic pattern.
16. Lines or words that are repeated to stress the importance:
17. What type of figurative language is a word imitating a sound?
18. Serves the same function as the narrator in a story:to "tell" the poem.
19. The repetition of consonant sounds (every sound besides vowel sounds) in neighboring words THAT DO NOT RHYME.
20. A group of lines arranged together that are set off from other groups by a space