Poetry Terms Quiz 317 (20 MCQs)

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1. 'Their love outshone even that of Romeo and Juliets' is an example of .....
2. One of the divisions of a poem, usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines (kind of like a paragraph in prose)
3. Did you know that not all deserts arehot? Both hot and cold deserts are verydry, but unlike hot deserts, cold deserts have longwinters when the temperatures can reach belowfreezing. Cold deserts also get a great deal ofsnow, which is certainly not true for hot deserts.
4. What is Lyric
5. A short poem with three lines and a 5-7-5 syllable pattern is called a?
6. What is a comparison using the words like or as?
7. Author uses words that appeal to senses (sight, touch, smell, sound, taste)
8. What is a group of lines in a poem called ("paragraph")?
9. Message or universal understanding that the poem explores
10. "Muggles" belong in which book/movie series?
11. Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme is an example of what?
12. Vivid description of things seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted
13. Rhyming within the line-not at the end.
14. Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables
15. This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using like or as.
16. IDENTIFY THE RHYME SCHEMETrue friends are by your sideThrough it allTrue friends are thereTo catch you when you fall.
17. An exaggeration for humorous effect or emphasis
18. Long (book length) narrative in verse form that retells a heroic journey.
19. A writer's voice and attitude in a piece.
20. The snow is a white blanket. Metaphor?