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Poetry Terms Quiz 360 (20 MCQs)

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1. In his poem "The Raven", Edgar Allan Poe uses repetition to create rhythm and mimic sounds. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, -While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping." By repeating beginning consonant sounds, what device is Poe using?
2. The pattern of rhymes in a poem. For example:AABB, ABAB, ABCD, or ABBA pattern.
3. What is the term for the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a line of poetry?
4. What are the sections of poems called?
5. Details that relate to the five senses. They help paint a picture for the reader
6. Poetry with no rhyme or meter.
7. Anapest
8. Two or more words that repeat the same end sounds.
9. What technque involves the beginning of lines of poetry starting the same?
10. Stanza structure in which four (4) lines are grouped together through a rhyme scheme.
11. Beats in words that create rhythm
12. Human qualities given to inanimate objects
13. What is being personified:The moon guided me through the forest.
14. Writing or spoken language in its ordinary paragraph form, without metrical structure. A short story is in prose. Prose is used in Shakespeare's plays for characters who don't have power or prestige.
15. EX:The lightening danced across the night sky.
16. Two rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter
17. That cat sat back is an example of
18. Determined using the combination of form, voice, and poetic devices; central message
19. The prominence or emphasis given to particular syllables
20. Repeating a word or phrase within a poem
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