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Poetry Terms Quiz 93 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which word below rhymes exactly with the word "harm" ?
2. Figurative language is best defined as .....
3. Occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
4. Matching of the final vowel or consonant sounds in 2 or more words in a line of poetry
5. Repeating ideas to emphasize a point or make you focus on a main idea. An example: "I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd banish us you know." from I'm nobody! Who are You?" by Emily Dickinson
6. Begins with several words with the same soundex) twisting trout twinkled in the twilight
7. "The people along the sand, All turn around and look one way. They turn their back on the band, They look at the sea all day" This is an example of
8. What is an onmatopoeia?
9. Which word means:'To compare two things without using the words like or as?'
10. A poem usually written to praise or express sorrow for someone who has died
11. Sounds that resemble what is being described
12. "I shall be telling this with a sigh" is an example of
13. A figure of speech which compares two unlike things using like or as to show a likeness between the two things.
14. ..... is the use of a word or phrase, such as swoosh or clank, that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.
15. Repetition of two or more vowel sounds within a line. Burnt the fire of thine eyes(William Blake, "The Tiger" ) And I do smile, such cordial light(Emily Dickinson, "My Life Had Stood, A Loaded Gun" )
16. The pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines, such as ababbcc.
17. Dramatic irony is when
18. In a poem, the end of one line and the start of the next is called a
19. Ballad is.....
20. It is a humorous five-line verse. In it, the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme as do the third and fourth.
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