Poetry Terms Quiz 184 (20 MCQs)

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1. "Taco Tuesday" is an example of .....
2. Group of words arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than the right-hand margin
3. What is the break down of how a word is pronounced?
4. "I've told you a million times to clean your room!" is an example of what figure of speech?
5. I have a ton of things to do!
6. What are 'buzz', 'snap' and 'hiss' examples of?
7. A run-on line of poetry where it carries over into the next line because there is no punctuation
8. What is the name for a group of lines?
9. A phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song, or poem, especially at the end of each stanza.
10. ..... are pauses that divide a poem into lines, allows for the poem to be read more smoothly
11. Line Breaks
12. What is the rhyme scheme from Sonnet 30: " ..... thing may be told ..... should harden ice ..... with senseless cold ..... by wonderful device"
13. She was a night owl.
14. Poetry that expresses thoughts and feelings; songlike
15. Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines, widely used by Shakespeare
16. In which WWII event did Japan use the strategy of surprise attack to bomb the United States?
17. The repetition of the same vowel sounds within words
18. Iambic pentameter is how many syllables
19. Metaphor can be defined as:
20. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the rhythm of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.