Poetry Terms Quiz 356 (20 MCQs)

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1. A type of rhyme in which the stressed vowel sounds in both words are identical
2. A direct comparison of two items without using like or as
3. Smoke Detector Warned Family The Greens were quite startled to hear the piercing scream of their smoke detector coming from inside their house on Sunday afternoon. "We were having a family barbecue in the backyard, so our first thought was that the smoke from the grill had somehow set off the alarm, " Larry Green recounted. "The smoke turned out to be from a batch of brownies that my mom was baking for dessert, " Rachel Green explained. What type of figurative language is used?
4. Lyrical poem
5. Spondee
6. What is the term for the person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself in a poem?
7. Language arranged in lines w/ a regular rhythm & often rhyme scheme.
8. Which term describes the way a line of poetry 'runs on' to the next line without punctuation?
9. A short phrase or sentence in one row, or line of a stanza
10. The fact of two things being seen or placed close to the contrasting effect
11. ..... is how to tell each stanza apart.
12. Figure of speech in which a part is used to designate the whole, or whole to designate a part. Example: "All hands on deck" means all men, not just their hands.
13. Which choice best represents the central idea of the poem?
14. Comparisons between unrelated things or ideas to reveal the familiar in surprising ways. Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, imagery, and allusion are all types of this.
15. Which is Hyperbole
16. Words that imitate the sound they're naming
17. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping, at my chamber door." Edgar Allan Poe
18. The repeating of vowel sounds
19. Poetry with no regular meter or rhyme scheme
20. Repeating consonant sounds is called