Poetry Terms Quiz 323 (20 MCQs)

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1. Recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines of poetry.
2. Which word means the "paragraph" in poetry?
3. This is the continued use of the same rhyme or pattern
4. The attitude the writer takes toward a subject.
5. What is the opposite of personification?
6. A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or a poem, especially at the end of each stanza; a chorus.
7. A restatement of a text passage, or work giving the meaning in another form.
8. The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds
9. The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text. Ex. A worm named Maurice took the garden by storm.
10. A group of lines in a poem are .....
11. Appeals means that something is .....
12. A group of lines forming the basic recording metric unit in a poem
13. A hyperbole is .....
14. Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect or emphasis
15. An unrhymed three-line lyric poem, usually focused on images from nature, in which lines 1 and 3 have five syllables and line 2 has seven syllables
16. The sun smiled on the angry clouds.
17. A word or phrase which means something other than what is said. Ex. (It's raining cats and dogs)
18. What is the purpose of "the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, " by Gordan Lightfoot?
19. What form of figurative language repeats the same beginning consonant sound in a line?
20. Couplets