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Poetry Terms Quiz 495 (20 MCQs)

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1. Figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect.
2. The repetition of the same letter or sounds at the beginning of or within adjacent words
3. Lines in poetry grouped together
4. Triplet
5. Poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter
6. "I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinoccho's." This is an example of an .....
7. The "Song of Roland" ( "La Chanson de Roland" ) is a poem that tells of the Battle of Roncevaux and of the death of Roland, a trusted ally of Charlemagne. It is a medieval
8. A ballad not meant for singing, written by a sophisticated poet for educated readers, rather than arising from the anonymous oral tradition
9. A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next is .....
10. The way lines rhyme in a stanza of poetry, like ababcc
11. Descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader
12. What is a paragraph?
13. What type of rhyme scheme is demonstrated in the example 'The sky is blue, so bright and clear'?
14. The narrator of the poem is called .....
15. Line structure can be best defined as .....
16. A word that imitates the sound that it represents
17. "Because I could not stop for Death / He kindly stopped for me" contains .....
18. A type of literature that focuses on creating powerful emotions in the reader.
19. "Tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession of it." This is an example of what poetic term?
20. A scene or passage in a work evoking pity, sorrow, or compassion in the audience or reader
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