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Poetry Terms Quiz 297 (20 MCQs)

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1. A rhyme that occurs in two consecutive (back to back) lines of poetry
2. Long, narrative poem telling the events of a hero's deeds
3. The exact significance of a word or phrase taken without anyadded exaggeration, imagination, or connotations.
4. A comparison of two unlike objects that uses like or as
5. Identify the rhyme scheme.One fish two fish red fish blue fish.Black fish blue fish old fish new fish. This one has a little star.This one has a little car.Say! What a lot of fish there are.
6. What is a characteristic of a ballad?
7. Which of the following is an oxymoron?
8. Meant to tell a funny story; has five lines; has the rhyme scheme AABBA
9. Two rhyming lines next to one another. Couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet.
10. The use of words that have repetition of similar vowel sounds but are not rhyming words is called
11. In poetry, form is .....
12. A humorous five-line poem that uses an AABBA rhyme scheme.
13. Which term describes the repetition of similar vowel sounds within a word?
14. The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. Example:pensive poets, nattering nabobs of negativism.
15. Anything that evokes the five senses
16. A line or group of lines in a poem that's separated from other lines by extra white space; a division in a poem that occurs at a natural pause or at a point where the poet wants to speed up or slow down the poem, shift its tone, change the setting, or introduce a new idea or character
17. Haiku contains how many syllables?
18. An exaggeration not taken literally.
19. In which country did the haiku originate?
20. Rhymes follow a particular pattern in a poem
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