Poetry Terms Quiz 157 (20 MCQs)

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1. Form poetry is .....
2. Poetry in lines of irregular length, usually unrhymed.
3. This is an example of:The Gatorade quenched my thirst after I sprinted around the track with the sun beating down.
4. Rhythmic patterns built on the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
5. What is a stanza break?
6. Poetic device
7. A ..... is the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line.
8. Generally a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
9. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables.
10. Which of these is a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme? (William Shakespeare is known for writing 154 of these during his life.)
11. Features of texts; they vary from one form of written text to another
12. The voice that narrates (tells) the poem (not always the author)
13. Which choice is an example of an apostrophe?
14. Break a leg when you go on stage.
15. Author's word choice
16. What type of poem has exactly 14 lines with a very specific rhyme scheme, rhythm, and structure?
17. Repetition of similar vowel sounds in poetry
18. Writing in an alphabetic script, in which the first letter in each line of text spells out another message
19. A comparison between two things using the words like or as.
20. How does the poet convey the horrors of war?