Poetry Terms Quiz 285 (20 MCQs)

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1. Bake a big cake with lots of butter and bring it to the birthday bash. Is this alliteration or hyperbole?
2. What's the meaning of this metaphor? "After all the fans left the stadium, the bleachers were a disaster area."
3. When two words end in the same sound, this is known as what?
4. Language that represents one thing it terms of another
5. Emily Dickinson was a recluse.
6. The use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning
7. The gut feeling you get when you hear a word
8. "This man, this barking dog, this gulled fool" ~~ MEDEA
9. Define Anaphora
10. The pattern created by placing rhyming words in specific places
11. A person, place, or object that stands for a larger idea
12. A set or group of lines in a poem
13. Poetry free from consistency in rhyme, meter, or line length
14. Rhymes at the ends of lines
15. A group of verses in a poem
16. The comparison of two unlike things that share something in common without using the words "like" or "as"
17. "I have a ton of chores to do" is an example of a
18. What is descriptive language that appeals to the five senses?
19. The author's attitude toward the subject matter
20. A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.