Poetry Terms Quiz 114 (20 MCQs)

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1. One thing that stands for something else is referred to as
2. Which word decribes a technique used by writers where a thing which ordinarily is known for one thing actually represents something completely different such as DIckinson's setting sun and Frost's two roads?
3. A section at the end of a book that serves as a comment or a conclusion to what has happened
4. True or false:every sonnet must contain exactly fourteen lines
5. A ..... in a poem is like a sentence in a paragraph.
6. Near rhyme in which the concluding consonant sounds are identical but not the vowels. Example:sun/noon, should/food, slim/ham.
7. The "speaker" in poetry refers to
8. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of 2 or more words.
9. Genre
10. Rhyme scheme involves the repetition of similar sounds at the ..... of lines of poetry.
11. Which figurative language is this an example of:My father told me that life is a journey.
12. Helps the reader picture ordinary things in new ways. Is not literally true.
13. The use of parts of a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter Adds balance and rhythm "Easy come, easy go."
14. What is the pattern of rhymes in a poem called?
15. Uses like or as to compare two things
16. Diction is the literary term that means
17. The crazy car is colorful.
18. Define juxtaposition
19. A quatrain is a group of how many lines?
20. An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or humor