Poetry Terms Quiz 389 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem excerpt? Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
2. A single row of words (like a sentence)
3. Linking words by repeating similar initial sounds
4. A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn
5. What is the definition of oxymoron?Ex:icy hot
6. "Eeny meeny miny moe; catch a tiger by its toes" is an example of:
7. The devoted father was a rock for his family
8. The main idea or point of a text.
9. A figure of speech where words are not used in their literal sense, but rather in a figurative sense
10. Giving an inanimate objects human characteristics
11. What is repetition of similar sounding words?
12. Hiss, chirp, plop, buzz are all examples of which poetic device?
13. Repetition of end sound
14. The literary technique of using words that sound like the word.
15. An exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally
16. Same ending sounds of words
17. SNOW, GLOW; HAPPY, PAPPY; SEA, ME; SQUIRREL, CURL are examples of
18. What word is defined as "the pattern of rhyme in a poem" ?
19. Anything that stands for something else. An example:Red rose symbolizes love
20. A group of words arranged into a row in a poem.