Poetry Terms Quiz 13 (20 MCQs)

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1. ..... is when the same (or similar) sounds are repeated at the end of words.
2. A six-line stanza, usually the second stanza of an Italian sonnet
3. Foot
4. Using symbols to represent ideas
5. 2 lines per stanza
6. Type of poetry that does NOT rhyme.
7. Quintain
8. All of these are types of poetry EXCEPT:
9. A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
10. The person or "voice" telling the story or relating the description; the "speaker"
11. A poem that stems from African American culture and the musical tradition of the blues, typically highlighting themes of struggle, pain and despair
12. Empty; having little or no vegetation.
13. A comparison between two unlike things using like or as
14. The repeating of sounds at the end of words
15. Meter
16. This type of poem has 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the final line. It is usually about nature. What kind of poem is it?
17. "Nothing Gold Can stay" -by Robert Forster Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaves a flower, But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down today. Nothing gold can stay.
18. A single line of poetry.
19. Words that are repeated in a poem
20. Giving something that's not alive, human qualities