Poetry Terms Quiz 80 (20 MCQs)

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1. Using five senses to create visual images for the reader
2. A diamante is?
3. A figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another; for example, "my love is a fragile flower."
4. Repetition of beginning sounds in words
5. The end of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line
6. Pair of rhyming lines, usually the same meter and length
7. Repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of words
8. Repeating the same words, phrases, lines, or stanzas
9. Which of the following literary tools is a comparison that uses "like" or "as" ?
10. Using the same sound or letter at the beginning of words or lines
11. Specific type of alliteration that relies on the repetition of soft consonant sounds in words to create a wooshing or hissing sound in the writing
12. The house was a wreck.
13. A five line humorous poem
14. Words with the same ending sound that appear at the end of a line in poetry
15. The repetition of the sound of a vowel
16. Rhetorical device in which words initially presented are restated in reverse order.
17. Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste)
18. A couplet is 2 lines
19. The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the ends of lines of poetry
20. A big idea addressed throughout a work, usually expressed as an abstract noun, like "love"