Poetry Terms Quiz 221 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is it called when words share an accented vowel sound and succeeding consonant sound?
2. Imagery only appeals to the sense of sight.
3. The following lines are examples of:But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.
4. The author's attitude.
5. An indirect or passing reference
6. If something is fragile it is
7. The Odyssey begins ..... years after the Trojan War ended.
8. Something like "Civil War" is an example of .....
9. A poem in the form of an address to a particular subject
10. Using like or as to compare two unlike things in an effort to describe something
11. The repetition of vowel sounds in words that do not end with the same consonant
12. Which of the following words completes the rhyme:grade, maid, spade, fade
13. The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ..... of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
14. The act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again.
15. Poetry not written in rhythmical pattern or meter.
16. The use of words that sound like what they mean: "I heard a fly buzz"
17. What is metaphor?
18. ..... compares two or more things by implying that one thing is another. It does not use like or as.
19. Slippery, smooth silk slipped through Sarah's slender fingers
20. Which of the following is not an example of figurative language used to make comparisons?