Poetry Terms Quiz 467 (20 MCQs)

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1. Using words to create a picture in the readers' mind using the senses.
2. A poem that tells a story. Not an epic ..... epics have superhuman or extraordinary happenings ..... narratives do not.
3. A funny poem with five lines
4. ..... is a particular type of repetition in which the same word or group of words is repeated at the beginning of two or more successive clauses or lines.
5. A couplet is a group of how many lines?
6. When you repeat words, phrases, or sounds
7. A thunderstorm brewed in his eyes.
8. An eight-line stanza, usually the first stanza of an Italian Sonnet
9. A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song-often at the end of each stanza
10. A word or phrase that states a characteristic quality of a person or thing.
11. The use of strong and evocative images to create a highly visual, imaginative reading experience. Metaphors and similes are types of this term
12. Rhyming words sound the same .....
13. A point in the poem where the tone changes
14. Voice of the poem
15. This sentence is an example of what: "Who let the cat out of the bag?"
16. The deeper more emotional meaning of a word
17. A dramatic monologue is .....
18. Poetry with no regular rhyme, rhythm or line length.
19. Simile, metaphor, hyperbole, idiom, personification are all forms of .....
20. A comparison between two unrelated things NOT using like or as.