Poetry Terms Quiz 363 (20 MCQs)

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1. This can be the poet OR an invented character who has had an experience that is written about.
2. What is being compared in the following line? "Our hearts, though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums, are beating funeral marches to the grave." from "A Psalm of Life" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3. Which type of poem is free from any specific rhythm, stanzas, or line measurements?
4. The breeze whispered through the trees
5. Using words that sound like their meanings
6. Josh acts like a clown to try to impress the ladies This is an example of .....
7. The comparison of two things that are not really alike by using the words like or as is called .....
8. Rhyme involving sounds that are similar but not exactly the same
9. It was raining cats and dogs this morning.
10. My dog died on my birthday causing me to feel .....
11. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem
12. Five feet in a line of poetry
13. Something that stands for something else
14. A group of lines in a poem, often separated by a space and sharing a specific pattern or rhyme scheme.
15. ..... are words with the same ending sounds at the end of lines or stanzas
16. Words that rhyme inside a line.
17. The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a line or stanza to add emphasis. An example:At that mat sat Pat who liked to bat.
18. "O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won." is an example of:
19. Descriptive language that invokes any of the five senses to create a set of mental images for the reader
20. An oxymoron is .....