Poetry Terms Quiz 489 (20 MCQs)

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1. "And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn" This line is an example of .....
2. Unit of language into which a poem or play is divided.
3. When a poet repeats lines but changes one or more words with each repetition.
4. I will love you for a thousand years.
5. What is a ballad poem?
6. Poets group lines into stanzas to create an effect or express an idea
7. A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables
8. (literary) brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature
9. The voice that is talking to us in a poem is referred to as what?
10. What is the correct term for the following definition? A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance
11. These compare two things that are alike in some way using the words "like" or "as." For example: "The moon was as bright as a white balloon."
12. What is a contradiction
13. Repetition of internal consonant sounds
14. The use of a part of something to represent a whole idea
15. These are rhyming words placed within a line of poetry
16. Compares two apparently unlike things using the word like or as
17. Assonance, consonance, and alliteration are basically the same thing.
18. Using "like" or "as" to compare unlike things.
19. "Juliet is the sun!" is an example of
20. Her love is a rose to my heart. Metaphor?