Poetry Terms Quiz 494 (20 MCQs)

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1. The pattern of a poem in which the endings of certain lines rhyme with each other (A B A B ..... ) is called .....
2. When we returned from vacation, I said, "There's no place like home!"
3. My words are chains of lead.
4. How many vowels are in the vocabulary word that means "it makes the sound that imitates its meaning."
5. Just turn me loose let me straddle my old saddle/Underneath the western skies/On my cayuse let me wander over yonder/ 'Til I see the mountains rise/-Cole Porter, Don't fence me in
6. This is the pattern of sound created by stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
7. Refers to words with the same end sounds
8. In poetry, a word or sequence of words that refers to asensory experience.
9. Poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices.
10. The front desk was my chocolate notebook and I was not letting it go away. No way. What poetry term is used?
11. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words
12. A pattern of rhymes within a poem
13. Define Punctuation
14. A short poem of songlike quality is a limerick.
15. An intricate, extended, or far-fetched metaphor or simile that arouses a feeling of surprise, shock, or amusement.
16. Using like or as to compare something
17. An author's word choice
18. A section of a novel is called .....
19. "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams, And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out. This section of the poem is written in lines of two that rhyme, which is called .....
20. Compare 2 unlike objects without "like" or "as"