Poetry Terms Quiz 46 (20 MCQs)

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1. Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
2. The Tortoise and the Hare is an example of .....
3. Poem with 14 lines, 10 syllables in each line, and often uses the rhyme scheme of ABAB-CDCD-EFEF-GG.
4. A person who writes a poem
5. How a poem is organized
6. The repeated use of an s or s sound (clue:creates an almost hissing sound)
7. Conceit
8. One who tells, or narrates, a story; the storyteller; the voice of the story; there are 3 main types, although writers are known to blend / switch in their stories
9. If you are thinking about how something is written rather that what is written, you are thinking about .....
10. No recognizable rhyme scheme
11. ..... is a pattern of stressed syllables that create a beat.
12. ..... is a strong, repeated, regular pattern of sound in a poem, often created by the poem's meter.
13. Alliteration occurs
14. A word that imitates the sound, such as bang, boom, pow
15. A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one ( u / )
16. What is a Sestet
17. What word describes six feet of verse?
18. Identify the type of figurative langauge used below.Lizzie's beautiful locks were like noodles twisting around a fork.
19. Persona. The voice in a poem. Can be the poet, character (person, animal, or thing) created by the poet.
20. A story / narrative in poetic form is