Poetry Terms Quiz 364 (20 MCQs)

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1. A group of words in a line in a poem
2. Giving non-human things human characteristics or abilities
3. An intentional contradiction between apparent and actual meaning
4. True or False:All rhyming words have to have the same end spelling.
5. A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. 'It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.'.
6. The trees danced under the starry skies is an example of ..... ?
7. What is a group of words aligned in one row?
8. A short, unrhymed Japanese poetic form with three lines of five syllable, seven syllables, and five syllables
9. Group of lines that are set off visually from other lines in the poem like a paragraph in literature
10. The felt emotion by the reader of the poem is called:
11. Giving reference to a movie, book, or common phrase that most people know
12. End rhymes that are not exact, but approximate.
13. What poetic sound device is used in this sentence? She fell flat on her face.
14. Overtones, suggestions, implications, and additional meanings of the word
15. What figurative language is an expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression?
16. Definition:a four-line verse or poem that rhymes
17. Figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis for humorous effect.
18. Repetition of consonants in a line-not at the beginning
19. A fourteen-line lyric poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet
20. The beat of a poem, created by the poet's deliberate choice of words made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.