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Poetry Terms Quiz 183 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which best describes a rhyme scheme?
2. Language that appeals to the senses (smell, sight, taste, touch, sound) is called .....
3. Which term means an extreme exaggeration?
4. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Creates the flow of the poem:fast, choppy or smooth.
5. The structure of a poem; how it is built
6. In the poem "Fog", the first two lines are "The fog comes on little cat feet." When a sentence is continued without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza in a poem, it is called .....
7. The measurement of rhythm in poems, measured by the number of feet in one line of poetry.
8. The shirt, so bright, I needed sunglasses to look at it.
9. Comparing two things usually by saying one is the other
10. A group of words in one row
11. The writer's attitude towards his/her subject is .....
12. An expression that means something different from the literal meaning of each word
13. The repetition of vowel or diphthong sounds in one or more words found close together.
14. Repetition of one or more phrases or lines at the end of a stanza
15. The repetition of the same stressed vowel sound and any following sounds in two or more words.
16. A fourteen line poem in rhyming iambic pentameter with an octave that sets up a problem and the sestet that gives the answer, with the last two lines of rhyming couplet as the solution; Shakespearean or Petrarchan
17. Poets arrange words and break lines at certain points (measured in feet)
18. Buzz or drip, cackle, bang, snarl, pop, are examples of .....
19. What word means the writer gives human qualities to a non human subject
20. Words used in an imaginative way that express ideas that are not necessarily true.
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