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Poetry Terms Quiz 272 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the following sentence an example of ..... She was so pretty my eyes popped out!
2. When the poet compares two things using "like" or "as." "My love is as boundless as the sea ..... " (Romeo and Juliet)
3. A word that is the opposite of another word. An example:Happy = Sad
4. A device in literature where an object represents an idea.
5. Has 19 lines and 2 repeated refrains
6. Poets writing today ALWAYS write in free verse.
7. Giving human-like characteristics or human actions to objects, animals or ideas is called:
8. The person narrating the poem
9. It is the rhyming of words within one line of writing.
10. What is a verse?
11. When two or more words in the same line (or in close lines) that have similar consonant sounds (like game and gust)
12. Words with a similar ending sound are called .....
13. The musical quality created by unstressed and stressed syllables in a line of poetry
14. Going beyond the literal meaning of words in order to achieve an effect by using metaphor, smile, irony, personification, etc
15. Poems that break the rules and do not contain regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme.
16. Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words that DO NOT RHYME.
17. This type of poetry is very conversational-sounds like someone talking with you. Considered a more modern type of poetry.
18. Describes a non-human object as having human qualities or doing a human action
19. Rhymes that occur within lines
20. What term is described as intentional word choice?
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