Poetry Terms Quiz 51 (20 MCQs)

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1. I'm nobody! || Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there's a pair of us ||-don't tell!They'd banish ||-you know!
2. Define stanza.
3. What is consonance?
4. "She is like a rich jewel" is an example of a
5. A three-line Japanese poem form, containing exactly 17 syllables, usually about nature
6. A brief reference to a real of fictional person, event, place, or work of art
7. Group of lines in a poem that form a unit
8. The splendour falls on castle wallsAnd snowy summits old in story:The long light shakes across the lakesAnd the wild cataract leaps in glory.
9. What device is used here:"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary ..... "
10. He was as fast as a rocket.
11. There was an old man at the Cape Who made himself garments of crape When asked "Will they tear?" He replied "Here and there, But they keep such a beautiful shape!"
12. Metaphors use like or as to compare two things.
13. What is a group of words in a poem, like sentences in a story, called?
14. "Fire flamed ferociously throughout the farmer's field." is an example of which sound device?
15. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
16. What makes the music in poetry. It also helps you memorize poems and songs?
17. A set rhythmic pattern in poetry; the pattern of the beats.
18. Compare 2 unlike objects using "like" or "as"
19. What is the correct spelling of the word that means the ideas and feelings that words bring to mind.
20. Division of lines into groups.