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Poetry Terms Quiz 327 (20 MCQs)

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1. A formal poem, often written as a lament for a departed friend or respected person. The poet usually sets forth his or her ideas about death or some other serious subject.
2. What is it called when poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem?
3. Feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal or main meaning
4. What technique repeats sounds, words, phrases, or an entire line?
5. Where a line in a poem is broken and a new line begins
6. When certain words are repeated
7. Phrases or lines of poetry that are repeated in the poem
8. A word that is also the sound it creates.
9. ..... is the name for a group of lines in a poem.
10. Use of a word whose sound imitates or reinforces its meaning
11. A type of lyric poem that deals with serious themes like justice, truth, or beauty. Often odes use a singular object to convey their message.
12. The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to
13. What is is a combination of contradictory terms?Ex. jumbo shrimp
14. A rhymed pair of lines is called a .....
15. Attributing human like qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or other nouns
16. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing (using like or as) with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic.
17. What is the type of poetry that causes the reader to laugh?
18. Words that have the same ending sounds
19. A description of an object, place, animal, or an idea in human terms
20. Which term is poetry associated with?
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