Poetry Terms Quiz 149 (20 MCQs)

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1. "The city was a jungle" is an example of what?
2. A reference to a famous person, place, or thing
3. It was July, and the suntoasted the emerald grassuntil it smelled of warmthand green and life. It was July, and my heartsoaked up the air warmthuntil it sang of joyand love and life. How many stanzas in the poem above?
4. What is this an example of? deer, sheer, peer, we're
5. Comparison of two things using like or as
6. Literal
7. Unique point of view or attitude towards a subject
8. Exaggeration (ex:I am so hungry I could eat a horse.)
9. Repetition of beginning sounds in two or more words in a line or stanza.
10. The comparison of two things in which one is said to be another is called .....
11. A pattern of strong beats in speech or writing, especially in poetry
12. A resemblance in the sounds of words/syllables either between their vowels or between their consonants
13. What is a prose poem?
14. What is a refrain
15. Language that appeals to one or more of your senses ..... sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch is
16. The universal message of the poem.
17. One unit of meter.There are five basic types of ..... :iambic, anapestic, trochaic, dactylic, spondaic.
18. The repetition of beginning sounds, usually consonants, in neighboring words
19. The place where a line ends in a poem is called .....
20. "The sound of her voice was sweet" is an example of: