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Poetry Terms Quiz 172 (20 MCQs)

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1. Words that sound similar but do not rhyme perfectly are called .....
2. The literal meaning of a wor
3. Is this a pun? It's raining cats and dogs.
4. When an author references another literary work, myth, a religious text, etc. and assumes the reader will understand the reference
5. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles
6. The person telling or narrating the poem is called the:
7. Gently rapping, rapping on my window
8. The author places a person, concept, place, idea, or theme parallel to another to highlight the contrast between the two and compare them
9. When 2 or more words end in the same sound.
10. A comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"
11. A literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter
12. "Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay." -Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Referring to the Biblical Garden of Eden is what type of figurative language?
13. Define free verse poetry.
14. A sound, word, phrase, or line that is repeated for emphasis
15. End of one line of poetry and beginning of a new line
16. Repetitive sounds produced by consonants
17. Type of meter that has 2 syllables, (unstressed$\rightarrow$stressed)
18. I feel as free as a bird.
19. Type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
20. A form of literature that uses rhythm, rhyme, sound, or structure to express something in an artistic way
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