Poetry Terms Quiz 307 (20 MCQs)

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1. Sound in poetry
2. Which of the following is NOT an oxymoron?
3. Song-like poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance
4. ..... is a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
5. What structure is used in writing poetry?
6. The "beat" of the poem, also known as meter.
7. The meaning of a word that does not reflect the dictionary definition. An example:The definition of home is love, comfort, and family together.
8. Identical sounds in rhyming
9. Figurative Language:Choose the example of personification.
10. Language that appeals to the senses-sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell
11. This refers to the writer's use of vivid and descriptive language that appeal to the senses in order to add depth to his/her work.
12. Which of the following terms is defined as:poetry that has NO set rhyme, rhythm, or meter and may use irregular line length, punctuation, and capitalization.
13. What is the structure of the poem
14. Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work.
15. Which of the following words has neutral connotation?
16. What is a poetic form?
17. What sound device is used in the following sentence:The green grass waves like a shimmering sea.As I lie in the sahde of a towering tree.
18. Words that have the same ending sound
19. ..... is a reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history religion, mythology, politics, sports, science or pop culture.
20. A statement that represents the main idea present in a literary work.