Poetry Terms Quiz 440 (20 MCQs)

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1. Greeks devastated the city of Troy in an outburst of the Trojan War, when Helen-the wife of King Menelaus-ran away with the prince of Troy. Apparently, Helen was a very beautiful woman from Greece, and was ultimately held responsible for the devastation of Troy.
2. Poetry that does not have any end rhyme
3. You gave me an idea to buy ice cream because I am craving it.
4. Helps readers see, hear, smell, taste, or feel something.
5. A comparison that uses no connecting words.
6. Groups of lines are called .....
7. A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line, or the middle of the next.
8. A poem that does not rhyme and doesn't follow any rules is called a .....
9. Which vocabulary word is being defined? Describe one thing as if it were something else. They often point out a similarity between two unlike things.
10. Words that rhyme perfectly.
11. A group of words on one line with a number in the front
12. What is this an example of? Phillip found four amphibians.
13. The bruise on George's foot felt as big as an elephant. What are the words in blue an example of?
14. This use of words that describe a sound so that the readers can clearly "hear" them is called
15. An expressive, imaginative piece of writing often arranged in lines having rhythm and rhyme. The patterns made by the sounds of the words have special importance.
16. Moving from the present to an event that has happened earlier
17. Group of lines in a poem separated by space
18. What poem has no set rules?
19. Describes words that have the same ending sound
20. Language sung, chanted, spoken, or written according to some pattern of recurrence that emphasizes the relationships between words on the basis of sound and sense .