Poetry Terms Quiz 88 (20 MCQs)

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1. Grouped lines of poerty
2. Rhyme pattern in a poem (marked with letters)
3. The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close togetherex.- "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
4. Form is .....
5. This is is a pleasing sounding caused by the repetition of consonant sounds within sentences, phrases, or in poems.
6. The best friends had so much in common they were like two peas in a pod. What two things are being compared in this this sentence?
7. How the reader feels about a text
8. The repetition of identical or similar sounds in words.
9. When two unlike things are being compared using like or as, it is called a
10. Contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true
11. "I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland, To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men, Who will cut off your nostrils with a sharp bronze sword; He will tear of your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw." ..... Homer, The Odyssey Which word best describes the tone of the passage?
12. An organic poem
13. Two lines of poetry joined by a similar rhyme
14. A pause created within a line of poetry made by inserting a punctuation mark (comma, semicolon, or period)
15. A line of poetry that ends with a period, comma, or other method of pause
16. What word means the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
17. Ballad poem
18. A humorous imitation of an art form
19. How an author feels about a subject.
20. Which of the two basic elements is the main unit of poems?