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Poetry Terms Quiz 111 (20 MCQs)

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1. Comapring two things using "like" or "as" .
2. Which word means a basic unit of poetry, similar to a sentence?
3. A group of two lines in poetry.
4. What are a group of lines within a poem called?
5. The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
6. Long narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes, elevated in style and usually follows certain patterns
7. The use of repetition of sounds at the beginning of words (ex. snake sneaked)
8. Which phrase has the most POSITIVE (+) connotation?
9. Words that are used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true is called .....
10. The sleeping geese recline their heads.
11. How does a metaphor enhance the meaning of a poem?
12. Quatrains are typically what mood?
13. A type of poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music.
14. A comparison of unlike things without using "like" or "as"
15. Communicates meanings beyond the literal meanings of words to compare things, emphasize ideas, or give emotional effect.
16. "He was a Romeo with the ladies." is an example of .....
17. Giving human traits to non-living things.
18. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. / What is right is not always popular; what is popular is not always right. / For we that live to please, must please to live. / Don't live to eat; eat to live. / What you see is not always what you get; what you get is not always what you see. / To the world, you may be someone; but to someone, you may be the world. / When the power of love overcomes the love of power" are examples of .....
19. The assignment of stress to an unstressed syllable, usually as a result of patterns of rhythm and rhyme, is known as
20. A name for a line of poetry written in meter ..... is named according to the number of feet per line. There are eight types:monometer (1 ft), dimeter (2 ft), trimeter (3 ft), tetrameter (4 ft), pentameter (5 ft), etc.
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