Poetry Terms Quiz 189 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which type of poetry is typically a lament for the dead?
2. A person, place, object, or action that stands for something BEYOND itself.
3. You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
4. The recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity
5. A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit.
6. Repeating of consonant sounds at the end of consecutive words or phrases
7. A reference to a different literary or political work.
8. Define rhythm
9. The pattern of end rhymes in a poem, assigning a letter of the alphabet to each line starting with "a" is called:
10. I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
11. What is a reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance?
12. Meter can be defined as .....
13. The feeling a reader gets from the poem
14. Onomatopoeias, metaphors, similes, hyperboles, idioms, and personification are all types of .....
15. What is a comparison of two things using like or as?
16. Words with the same ending sound
17. "When Adele walked through the store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her." What is being personified?
18. A humorous funny 5 line poem in which lines 1, 2, 5 rhyme is called ..... ?
19. A comparison between two things that are alike using "like" or "as"
20. Paddy's potatoes were prepared to perfection is an example of .....