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Poetry Terms Quiz 79 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is NOT an example of onomatopoeia?
2. An obvious and intentional exaggeration
3. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as "like" or "as."
4. A collection of words written to inspire ideas, imagination, or emotion
5. What word is defined as "a common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally" ?
6. The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day. The rhyme scheme of the poem is .....
7. A line of verse where a logical or rhetorical pause occurs at end of line, usually marked with period, comma, or other punctuation
8. In poetry, what do we call a group of lines?
9. The following is an example of what? That student is the Devil; she has thrown papers at others, tripped her teacher, and refuses to do any work.
10. Pizza Slice Called to Dieter Gary Nielson was planning to have a green salad for lunch until his boss ordered pizza for everyone in the office. "I knew that I really should have stuck to my diet, but I couldn't resist the temptation when the pizza started to call my name, " Mr. Nielson explained. Which type of figurative language is used?
11. When a poet doesn't end a line with punctuation and the thought continues on a new line
12. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.
13. Slight and subtle differences in shades of meaning.
14. Fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
15. When a word in the middle of the sentence rhymes with a word at the end of the sentence.
16. Like the chorus of a song
17. The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants; vowel rhyme
18. Soft strong
19. Structure
20. Five iambic feet
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