Poetry Terms Quiz 478 (20 MCQs)

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1. "Sally saw a starfish singing by the sea" is an example of
2. Words or phrases in writing that should not be taken literally:
3. Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words
4. Finding the meaning of the poem is called
5. Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
6. "The wave was a tall monster" is an example of:
7. The pattern of rhyme
8. "Nature's first green is gOLD, Her hardest hue to hOLD.Her early leaf's a flOWER;But only so an hOUR."is an example of
9. The repetition of vowel sounds, like the ones in "Hear the mellow wedding bells! From the molten, golden notes!" is an example of which sound device?
10. The pattern of beats or stresses in language.
11. Tells of dramatic or emotional stories/situations (popular pop songs) (a narrative set to music)
12. Repetition of similar consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables as in "wind" and "sand"
13. Words that express sensory details
14. An imaginative comparison where one thing is said to be another thing (My brother's room is a pigsty.)
15. The repetition of the same ending sound in two or more words
16. The ..... of a word refers to other words, ideas, images that we associate with a specific word (i.e. "red" is associated with fire, blood, or anger).
17. Anaphora can best be defined as .....
18. Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds (Ex. Lamp/Stamp)
19. In a book or poem the author will tend to use imagery or ..... to better explain ideas.
20. The repeating of beginning consonant sounds in a group of words.