Poetry Terms Quiz 338 (20 MCQs)

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1. A poem that does not rhyme
2. Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds are known as .....
3. A group of lines in a poem, rather than paragraphs
4. Generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
5. A set of four lines within a poem
6. A three-line Japanese verse form. The first and third lines have five syllables. The second line has seven syllables.
7. ..... poems rhyme and express personal thoughts and feelings, like a song.
8. Repeated consonant sound, especially at the beginning of the word:i.e. Coca Cola
9. Definition:a figure of speech that compares two things using "like or "as"
10. "It's raining cats and dogs" or "He's on fire"
11. Where did Haikus come from?
12. When something represents or stands for something else.
13. "The sun played peek-a-boo with the clouds" is an example of-
14. A word that sounds like its meaning
15. ..... are the ends of each row of text in a poem
16. A term that includes the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature as well as all the sensory perceptions referred to in a poem
17. The feeling the poet creates for the reader
18. The attitude or feeling that a poem gives the reader is .....
19. Dactyl or dactyllic
20. What does repetition mean?