Poetry Terms Quiz 51 (20 MCQs)

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1. Group of lines in a poem that form a unit
2. The splendour falls on castle wallsAnd snowy summits old in story:The long light shakes across the lakesAnd the wild cataract leaps in glory.
3. What device is used here:"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary ..... "
4. He was as fast as a rocket.
5. There was an old man at the Cape Who made himself garments of crape When asked "Will they tear?" He replied "Here and there, But they keep such a beautiful shape!"
6. Metaphors use like or as to compare two things.
7. What is a group of words in a poem, like sentences in a story, called?
8. "Fire flamed ferociously throughout the farmer's field." is an example of which sound device?
9. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
10. What makes the music in poetry. It also helps you memorize poems and songs?
11. A set rhythmic pattern in poetry; the pattern of the beats.
12. Compare 2 unlike objects using "like" or "as"
13. What is the correct spelling of the word that means the ideas and feelings that words bring to mind.
14. Division of lines into groups.
15. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. An example:My love is a red, red rose.
16. Compose
17. Can Was Hiding Behind Crackers Ralph Davis wanted to make a tuna fish sandwich last Wednesday, but wasn't able to because he couldn't find the tuna fish can. The can eventually turned up behind a box of saltine crackers that Mr. Davis removed from the cupboard when he had chili for dinner last night. "The tuna can had been hiding at the back of the shelf all along, " Mr. Davis marveled. What type of figurative language is being used?
18. The continuation of a sentence beyond a line break, couplet, or stanza without an expected pause.
19. Patterns of words that sound the same
20. A poetic device that can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhyme with one another.