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Poetry Terms Quiz 350 (20 MCQs)

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1. The use of language that gives words a meaning beyond their literal definition.
2. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words (as in sun and one)
3. Which figure of speech is exemplified by the phrase 'quiet as mice'?
4. Giving non-human things humanlike qualities
5. What is the pattern of rhyming words in a poem?
6. What term is described as a figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another?
7. Opposites that are nonetheless true
8. Jack London used this literary term in The Call of the Wild to make Buck seem like a human to the reader.
9. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem excerpt? Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;
10. Poetry that does not tell a story, but show feelings and emotions.
11. A comparison of two unlike items using the "like" or "as" .
12. The beat of the poem-the way the words go
13. A mournful poem, a sad lament for people who have died is called an:
14. A comparison of two different things to make them more alike is .....
15. A comparison of two different things that do not use like or as
16. Poems that don't rhyme are called:
17. The selection of words in a literary work.
18. A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person
19. How is rhythm created?
20. What is a diamante poem?
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