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Poetry Terms Quiz 52 (20 MCQs)

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1. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. An example:My love is a red, red rose.
2. Compose
3. Can Was Hiding Behind Crackers Ralph Davis wanted to make a tuna fish sandwich last Wednesday, but wasn't able to because he couldn't find the tuna fish can. The can eventually turned up behind a box of saltine crackers that Mr. Davis removed from the cupboard when he had chili for dinner last night. "The tuna can had been hiding at the back of the shelf all along, " Mr. Davis marveled. What type of figurative language is being used?
4. The continuation of a sentence beyond a line break, couplet, or stanza without an expected pause.
5. Patterns of words that sound the same
6. A poetic device that can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhyme with one another.
7. The following are examples of what? Student teacher, jumbo shrimp, larger half, seriously funny
8. An object which carries more meaning than simply the dictionary definition.
9. What is the correct term for the following definition? The use of words that imitate sounds:buzz, screech, hiss, bang, pow, boom, etc.
10. Has little or no pre-established form or guidelines:
11. All night long with rush and lull/ The rain keep drumming on the roof
12. When something represents a bigger idea
13. Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
14. Her eyes dance in the moonlight, is an example of:
15. The number of beats/syllables in a line of poetry
16. How many lines does a limerick have?
17. What's the rhyme scheme?You just want attention, you don't want my heartMaybe you just hate the thought of me with someone newYeah, you just want attention, I knew from the startYou're just making sure I'm never gettin' over you
18. Written with "he or she or they" as the subject; The narrator and reader are outside the story. Pronouns:he, she, it, they, them, him, her, his, hers, its
19. A nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
20. Repetition of the same sounds in a line
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