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Poetry Terms Quiz 482 (20 MCQs)

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1. A reference to a famous person, place, event or other work of literature.
2. A stated comparison of two things using the words like or as
3. A reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature
4. Describes one thing as if it were something else
5. Is repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry
6. Repetition of vowel sounds in words that don't end in the same consonant
7. Bitter or cutting speech, said with the intention to hurt
8. A metrical unit consisting of a pair of unstressed-stressed syllables
9. "If I can't get a smartphone, I will die!"
10. What kind of poem is the following example from Crossover? "The Red Rockets, defending county champions, are in the house tonight.They brought their whole school.This place is oozing crimsonThey're beating ustwenty-nine to twenty-eightwith less than a minute to go.I'm at the free-throw line.All I have to do is make both shotsto take the lead.The first is up, UP, and ..... CLANK! ..... hits the rim ..... "
11. A reference to another person, place or text
12. Palindrome
13. A three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, it emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression
14. The use of specific objects or symbols to represent ideas
15. Repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the BEGINNING of at least two words in a line of poetry.
16. The central topic, subject, or message in a written work.
17. The characteristic way that a writer uses language to achieve certain effects
18. 'The car danced across the icy road' is an example of what?
19. Ode Poem
20. Which of the following terms is defined as:the effect of language in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated; or the effect of a situation in which the opposite of what one would have thought is actually what occurs
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