Poetry Terms Quiz 475 (20 MCQs)

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1. Repetition of the same beginning consonant sounds
2. Rhyme that occurs within a line of a verse.
3. A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other (such as: "bittersweet" )
4. A group of lines in a poem, much like a paragraph in prose
5. When talking about poetry, what is meter?
6. A magazine article is an example of .....
7. Descriptive language that asks you to use your senses when creating a picture in your head
8. What do a quatrain, sestet, tercet and a quintain all have in common?
9. Poetry without a rhyming structure or a particular rhythm.
10. Using images or symbols to represent an idea
11. "The garbage reached across the state, From New York to the Golden Gate"These lines are an example of .....
12. The place where the poet chooses to end a line, often used to indicate rhythm or to represent meaning.
13. The speaker's attitude towards a subject
14. What is the main purpose of poetry.
15. Which of these contains an adjective?
16. A word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem or song usually at the end of a stanza is:
17. Two or three syllable rhyme, unstressed final syllable (motion-notion, daughter-water, permanent-tournament)
18. A poem mourning the dead
19. A poem in which words are spelled out through the first letter of each line
20. Which word means "the overall organization of lines and/or the conventional patterns of sound" ?