Poetry Terms Quiz 392 (20 MCQs)

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1. A phrase with a meaning different than its literal meaning
2. The associations and emotional overtones attached to a word beyond its literal definition
3. The language that uses sensory details to help a reader recreate what the writer is describing, in his or her own mind.
4. The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines.
5. A group of words established as usage as having a meaning not duducible from those of the individual words.
6. Made up of stressed and unstressed syllables
7. The repetition of vowel sounds that are close together.
8. When a poem is written with a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (To the piano players out there)
9. What do the red lines show? In my sleep I dream In my sleep I believe In my sleep I mourn
10. The meter that Shakepeare used u/u/
11. The repetition of sounds st the beginning of words.
12. What states that one thing is something else? Example:Life is a highway.
13. The angry, gray waves slammed along the sandy shore as the squawking seagulls soared through the hot summer sky.
14. Repeated words, phrases, images, or structures
15. Gives the qualities of a person to an animal, object, or idea
16. Rhymed lyric poem consisting of 14 lines
17. The regular pattern of words that END with the same sounds is .....
18. Which poetry form is defined by its lack structure and has no specific pattern?
19. When two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds
20. What type of rhyme is used in the following example?"Tiger, Tiger, burning bright, In the forests of the night"