Poetry Terms Quiz 288 (20 MCQs)

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1. A comparison between two unlike ideas using like or as.
2. A poem that is Free Verse .....
3. ..... is the voice in the poem that talks to the reader.
4. The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences
5. Pick the type of Rhyme: "Once upon a midnight dreary, whille I pondered weak and weary / ..... While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping" ~~ "The Raven" by E A Poe
6. Descriptive words making one imagine how something looks, feels, smells, touches, and tastes.
7. Another word for "verse" is .....
8. A rhyming sound that is not exactex. "We Wear the Mask" subtleties rhymes with lies
9. A repeated rhythm pattern where the first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed.
10. Poems are made up of series of lines, which are usually divided into ..... The end of one line and beginning of another is referred to as a .....
11. "What I need:all dead, all dead, all dead"
12. If a line has two feet, it's .....
13. What is a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)?
14. What is it called when a line of verse with 5 metrical feet, each consisting a unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable?
15. The repetition of identical sounds in the last syllables of words.
16. Which poetic element is a reference to a popular person, place, story, or thing?
17. "The tea cup clinked and clanged as I put it down on the plate" is an example of:
18. Musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables
19. A comparison of two nouns saying that one thing is another
20. The ice sculptor's hands fluttered like hummingbird wings.