Poetry Terms Quiz 188 (20 MCQs)

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1. What type of figurative language is this statement:My head is pounding like a drum
2. This sentence is an example of what: "You are my knight in shining armor."
3. What is an elegy?
4. Repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words
5. When words at the end of a verse rhyme
6. What is the individual style in which a certain author writes his or her works?
7. The line of a poem stops and is continued on the next line even though there is plenty of space and the idea continues.
8. Eye rime
9. Language that appeals to your sense-sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch is
10. Exaggeration or overstatement of a fact for effect
11. "My love is like a rose" is .....
12. Line ends with some mark of punctuation; we pause at the end of the line
13. True or False:Imagery is the use of a word or phrase, such as "hiss" or "buzz" that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.
14. Bob is brave like a lion
15. A genre of literature that expresses ideas and feelings in compact, imaginative, musical words
16. A group of words in a poem, rather than sentences
17. A group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme .....
18. It was July, and the sun toasted the emerald grass until it smelled of warmth and green and life. It was July, and my heart soaked up the air warmth until it sang of joy and love and life. How many lines in the poem above?
19. What is an Anaphora?
20. This is a poem without regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme.