Poetry Terms Quiz 182 (20 MCQs)

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1. Read the following line: "The sticky chocolate covered my chin." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal?
2. A group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetry.
3. Gives human qualities or abilities to nonhuman things
4. Which is an example of imagery?
5. ..... is a similarity between words in spelling but, not in pronunciation.
6. Which form of figurative language compares one thing to another without using like or as?
7. Writing in paragraph form, using everyday language without stanzas, is known as ....., whereas writing with poetic elements and structure is considered .....
8. A poem of 14 lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes
9. Which poetic term is defined as "the repetition of initial consonant sounds" ?
10. In my poem, "His red sports car is just a dream" and "It needs no gas, it runs on steam" would be an example of a .....
11. Two lines of rhymed poetry with the same meter that are next to each other within a larger poem
12. Which of the following is defined as-as the use of words with sounds that imitate or suggest their meaning?
13. When two words in the same line rhyme
14. A four line stanza is called a
15. Repeating identical consonant sounds
16. "How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath / To say to me that thou are out of breath?" This is an example of ..... or unrhymed iambic pentameter.
17. What are the structural elements of a poem?
18. What is the speaker?
19. A rhyming poem of 14 lines is called .....
20. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? We can't find the cat, We don't know where she's at, Oh, where did she go? Does anyone know? Let's ask this walking hat.