Poetry Terms Quiz 146 (20 MCQs)

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1. The highest degree of an adjective or adverb or an exaggerated or hyperbolic expression
2. Cat, bat, hat, sat
3. A group of lines in poetry.
4. What type of poetry is this the definition for?A five-line, rhymed, rhythmic poem that is usually humorous.
5. A comparison without using the words like or as.
6. What poetic device is exemplified by the following phrase: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills." ?
7. Homework is a breeze, " is an example of which type of figurative language?
8. A kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet.
9. Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables. Typically about nature and use no rhyme scheme.
10. Two-line poems that match in rhyme and length.
11. The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line.
12. Which term has the following definition:Old French epic poems
13. What is the definition of a symbol?
14. When human qualities and ideas are given to things
15. The overall feeling of the story is called
16. Figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds
17. She's as cold as ice.
18. Form of Japanese poetry that has 5 unrhymed lines consisting of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables
19. A poem with five lines, a rhyme scheme of AABBA, that is comedic is called a?
20. What does "denotation" mean?