Poetry Terms Quiz 127 (20 MCQs)

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1. Concrete poem
2. Language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices.
3. What is the definition of a rhyme scheme?
4. Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line
5. A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation represents a larger idea.
6. ..... is the use of sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines more than once.
7. Home is a Prison for Grounded Youth Homes across America serve as prison cells for the countless children who are currently being grounded. For some, grounding is a vacation, complete with the luxuries of a big screen television, video games, and snacks. For others, grounding is a season of deprivation. "My parents took away all of my electronic devices, " one inmate whined. Many kids on strict grounding complain that it is cruel to take entertainment away from a child who doesn't have the attention span to withstand a lengthy period of time spent away from a glowing screen. What type of figurative language is used?
8. Poem's speaker; who serves as the same function as the narrator in a story
9. Repetition of the beginning consonant sound in words
10. A three line poetry form originating in Japan. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7, and the third line has 5 syllables
11. Correspondence of sound between words or endings of words, especially when they are at the ends of lines in poetry.
12. An expression that means something other than the literal meaning
13. A repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
14. A group of lines (like a paragraph)
15. Choose the example with alliteration
16. A form of writing that often uses imagery, rhyme or rhythm to create an emotional response
17. What do we call sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch
18. A figure that directly addresses an absent imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love
19. Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds
20. Definition:is a pair of rhyming lines, usually the same length and meter