Poetry Terms Quiz 455 (20 MCQs)

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1. The use of very descriptive, sonsory language
2. Poem of mortal loss and consolation
3. Which type of poetry is usually set to a musical rhythm?
4. The repetition of the same (or similar) vowel or consonant sounds or constructions. A rhyme at the end of two or more lines of poetry is called an end rhyme.
5. ..... takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds.
6. One line in a poem
7. A symbolic work in which characters, events, and settings represent cultural concepts. Characters are often abstractions personified.
8. This is the meaning, moral, or main message that the writer wishes to share with the reader.
9. What is a single line in a poem?
10. A comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as.
11. The repeated use of words, phrases, lines, ideas, or stanzas in a poem for effect or emphasis.
12. Repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words
13. A form of repetition in which only the beginning of phrases are repeated.
14. What is a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem?
15. The name of a 5-line poem that begins with a noun and end with a synonym for the noun in the first line.
16. The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words
17. A poem that is structured as a story/narrative
18. A kind of metaphor that uses like or as to compare two things:A is like B
19. Language that appeals to the senses. Helps the reader imagine look, sound, touch, smell, taste.
20. Compares two unlike things without using like or as