Poetry Terms Quiz 143 (20 MCQs)

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1. Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry; brings out the musical qualities
2. Mom Told Son a Thousand Times Drew's mom couldn't believe her eyes when she came home from the grocery store to find that her son still hadn't taken out the trash. "I must have reminded him at least a thousand times, " she said. "I told her that I would take care of it after I finished playing my video game, " Drew protested. What type of figurative language is used?
3. The words cat and bat are an example of ..... ?
4. This means that the sound of the word is like the noise of the thing itis describing:pop, boom, crash, slurp .....
5. The atmosphere, or feeling, created by the author in a poem.
6. Structural elements of Drama?
7. The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text.
8. This is the repetition of a vowel sounds, like "Aunt Annie ate alligators."
9. A pattern of stressed and unstressed beats in a poem is its .....
10. Another word for the "turn, " which occurs after the octave of an Italian Sonnet
11. The use of words that imitate the sounds they represent is called .....
12. Which of these is a hyperbole?
13. The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character.
14. Which of the following is the bestdescription of a Japanese Haiku?
15. A septet is
16. Repeating beginning sounds in two or more words
17. Refers to the attitude of a writer toward a subject that they are writing about.
18. What kind of rhyme is employed in this lines from a poem:The moon never beams without bringing me dreams.And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes.
19. A type of rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical sounds; formed by words with identical consonants and different vowels, or vice versa
20. The repetition of vowel sounds in words close together