Poetry Terms Quiz 450 (20 MCQs)

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1. A reference to a certain person, place, or event from the past .....
2. The pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or poem
3. What is the repeating of words, letters, sounds, lines, etc.?
4. Which word means a repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?
5. A type of poem that isn't written with a strict rhyming pattern or stanza structure
6. "Oh, the bells ..... /how they clang, and clash, and roar!" is an example of .....
7. Which term means comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other?
8. Which of the following is an example of enjambment?(a) The orphan arrived in outlandish hat, proud pain of new button boots.(b) Alone, she would cut her way through a new world's graystone chapels, the steep and sideways .....
9. Which is an example of "simile" ?
10. Saying "I could eat something" when you're starving and haven't had a meal in over 24 hours.
11. To ..... is to see an image in your head.
12. The basic straight-forward meaning
13. What is the definition of jargon?
14. A piece of verse, or poem, in which there is a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds, especially. at the ends of lines
15. 19 line form with a pattern of repeated lines and a specific rhyme scheme
16. Un-rhymed iambic pentameter is known as
17. During brunch with his grandparents, Jacob was a real pig. What are the words in blue an example of?
18. A poem from japan with three lines, traditionally written about nature.
19. The measured arrangement of sounds or beats in a poem and how the poet places emphasis on syllables
20. The beat or 'sing-song' quality of the poem