Poetry Terms Quiz 476 (20 MCQs)

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1. You are a cheetah
2. When rhymes follow a particular pattern
3. The pattern of rhyming lines in poetry (ex:AABB, ABAB)
4. ..... is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" .
5. This poetic device has a pause or break in the poem for emphasis
6. Who was Robert Browning married to?
7. The use of grammatically similar structures, be they nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, or larger structures.
8. What is language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling?
9. Which contains a correct example of assonance and the correct definition?
10. Which of these is a pun?
11. A word that makes a noise or sound
12. A poem that tells a story. These poems often have all the elements of a short story, including characters, dialogue, setting, conflict, and plot.
13. ..... is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
14. Which type of poems tell a story?
15. A metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable.
16. Which of these means "giving nonhuman objects human characteristics?"
17. Each unit of stressed and unstressed syllables
18. A comparison of two unlike objects
19. Occurs when rhyming words come at the ends of lines of poetry
20. Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to place or thing, or a personified abstract idea