Poetry Terms Quiz 466 (20 MCQs)

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1. Max is a pig when he eats. This is an example of a/an:
2. Poem with 14 lines, either Italian or Shakesperean in format
3. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! This is an example of .....
4. A literary ballad is a written tradition.
5. The definition of the term "repetition" is .....
6. Provide an example of a famous poem that uses metaphor extensively.
7. What is a dialogue?
8. A figure of speech in which an object, animal, or idea is given human characteristics
9. "The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to make their descent to the ground." is an example of .....
10. The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity. Example:deep green sea.
11. Using words to create a picture in the readers' mind using the senses.
12. A poem that tells a story. Not an epic ..... epics have superhuman or extraordinary happenings ..... narratives do not.
13. A funny poem with five lines
14. ..... is a particular type of repetition in which the same word or group of words is repeated at the beginning of two or more successive clauses or lines.
15. A couplet is a group of how many lines?
16. When you repeat words, phrases, or sounds
17. A thunderstorm brewed in his eyes.
18. An eight-line stanza, usually the first stanza of an Italian Sonnet
19. A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song-often at the end of each stanza
20. A word or phrase that states a characteristic quality of a person or thing.