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Poetry Terms Quiz 29 (20 MCQs)

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1. Combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox (example:the word "bittersweet")
2. The bank was overflowing with precious wildlife, a golden sun shadowed to the horizon. The water glistened as pelicans drank.
3. Use of words whose sounds echo their meanings
4. An extreme exaggeration
5. A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented (unstressed) syllable followed by an accented (stressed) one
6. Which of these is the correct definition of ambiguity?
7. Which word means:'To compare a non human object to an action that humans can do?'
8. A verse or piece of poetry having corresponding sounds at the ends of lines
9. The voice that "talks" to the reader, similar to the narrator in fiction. The speaker is not necessarily the poet.
10. A dentist with a bunch of cavities
11. What is a free verse poem?
12. This is the "beat" of the poem.
13. Giving non-human objects human qualities
14. Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme
15. "Caiden was as cool as a cucumber when he had to take his poetry test." is an example of a .....
16. You are as slow as a sloth
17. Enjambment
18. What is rhythm?
19. This is a reference to a well-known person, place, event or literary work.
20. The pattern of end rhymes is called .....
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