Poetry Terms Quiz 276 (20 MCQs)

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1. Six-line unit in a poem
2. Mark was a beast on the football field destroying anyone who came in his path. Which type of figurative language is used in the line above?
3. The design of a poem; the means by which a literary work expresses its content
4. "It is is easy as cake" is a .....
5. How many lines does a couplet have?
6. A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.
7. This line of poetry has an example of?Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so;
8. Repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem
9. A short poem expressing the internal and emotional thoughts of a single speaker. They are usually an expression of the poet's feelings about a person, an object, event or idea. They originated as songs and retain their melodic patterns through various forms or rhythm and rhyme.
10. Set of words or phrases that are repeated regularly in a poem or song
11. The division of a poem (The "paragraphs" of poetry).
12. How is tone created
13. The way a poem flows from one idea to the next
14. A word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated at times throughout a poem or song
15. The traffic noises argued long into the night and finally Carl went to sleep.
16. This type of writing is typically reserved for expressing something special in an artistic way. Ideas are contained in lines that may or may not be sentences. Lines are arranged in stanzas.
17. Which of these is alliteration?
18. Which type of figurative langauge compares two things without using like or as?
19. A stronger comparison saying that something IS something rather than just LIKE it
20. Love is an intense feeling of deep affection.