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Poetry Terms Quiz 211 (20 MCQs)

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1. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next
2. A longer poem that tells a story is known as a .....
3. Roses are red, Violets are blue. I wish you could see How much I love you! What sound device is indicated by the highlighted words?
4. A writing technique in which similar sounds are at the beginning of words
5. Words whose sounds make you think of their meaning
6. Which technique is illustrated in the following:Two hawks soar and dive peacefully in the wind.A bird, like a flute, sings to a child.The hillside sits as still as a statueAs the great oak watches quietly in the wild.
7. ..... is often funny and a joke, but it is always a play on the multiple meanings or spellings of a word.
8. A six-line stanza
9. What is the allusion? To Jake, her hair seemed like the Nile-sparkling and endless.
10. In ..... poems, the first letter of each line spells out a word or saying.
11. A PAIR of rhyming LINES that form a complete THOUGHT
12. What is repeating word, phrase, or line in a poem?
13. The repetition of the same vowel sounds among words
14. Human qualities given to nonliving objects
15. A long narrative poem which tells of the adventures of heroic characters, over a long period or describes some monumental task. Often, supernatural forces play a part in the action
16. A stanza is to a poem as a ..... is to a story.
17. What is a paradox in poetry?
18. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
19. A grouping of lines in poetry expressing a unifying idea
20. Dysphemism
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