Poetry Terms Quiz 209 (20 MCQs)

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1. The following is an example of what? I wandered lonely as a cloud.
2. Exclaiming "Oh great!" after failing an exam
3. Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.
4. Language used for descriptive effect (Not literally true, but expresses figurative meaning)
5. Anapestic meter
6. ....., or the broad term of something being simply "ironic, " refers to a discrepancy between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate or expected.
7. What is the definition of assonance?
8. A word that makes its sound
9. What type of figurative language repeats the same sound in multiple words in a line?
10. The way in which the words and lines are arranged on the page.
11. These are rhyming words that fall at the end of two or more lines
12. "she broke in tears when she saw the ring in the box."
13. Save money by spending it
14. The use of words to achieve some special meaning or effect.
15. "Two roads roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."What poem is this a part of?
16. A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem (usually at the end of each stanza or verse) is known as a .....
17. Poetry that does not follow a specific form and does not have to rhyme is known as .....
18. Who was Emily Dickinson?
19. A haiku should not rhyme.
20. What is comparing two things using the words "like" or "as" called?