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Poetry Terms Quiz 268 (20 MCQs)

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1. A unified group of lines in poetry that is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
2. A comparison of two objects using like or as
3. The overall pattern a poem follows to make a particular type of peom
4. How many syllables are in one line of iambic pentameter?
5. What does "alliteration" mean?
6. Definition:exaggeration or overstatement, not meant to be taken literally.
7. One line of poetry
8. A poem that contains 10 syllables. 5 iambic feet
9. Poetry NOT written in regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter. The author is free to write lines of any length or with in number of stresses, or beats.
10. What is the correct spelling of the word that means the writer gives human qualities to a non human subject.
11. Words at the end of separate lines rhyme.
12. A group of lines in a poem or song (a paragraph)
13. The ..... are like paragraphs in a poem.
14. Compare one object or idea with another
15. What is a foot (in poetry)?
16. A technique in which the normal order of words is reversed. This is often done to maintain a particular rhyme scheme or meter, and sometimes for artistic effect
17. Giving a non-living thing human or animal characteristics
18. Figurative language comparing two unlike things.
19. ..... is the repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words, for example, moon and June.
20. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex: "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life."
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