Poetry Terms Quiz 413 (20 MCQs)

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1. "A terrible beauty is born, " is an example of .....
2. The feeling that the reader is left with after reading a poem
3. What type of figurative language compares two similar items by using 'like' or 'as'?
4. How long was Mr. Voyak's study plan?
5. The place where the author chooses to end one line and go down to the next. This creates a natural pause.
6. When a word or phrase repeats. "I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch ..... "
7. This is the musical quality, or beat, heard in a poem
8. The arrangement of words or lines on the page to produce a desired effect
9. The term for having punctuation at the end of a line
10. This poem type has no set rules, no rhyme or rhythm
11. An extended meditative poem in which the speaker reflects on death-often a tribute to a person who has died recently.
12. Which term means the repetition of a consonant sound?
13. Irony occurring when an author or character's meaning differs from what he or she expresses in words.
14. Don't let the cat out of the bag.
15. What is a pattern of rhyme at the end of each line, annotated with letters?
16. What poetic term is defined as "exaggeration" ?
17. Used to describe the level of formality that a speaker uses
18. A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other certain sound patterns.
19. Poetic devices like meter, refrain, stanza, and verse all fall into the category of
20. A literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form.