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Poetry Terms Quiz 53 (20 MCQs)

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1. The difference between the way something appears and what is actually true.
2. The "turning" point of a sonnet, usually occurring between the octave and the sestet.
3. A line or group of lines that is repeated at regular intervals.
4. A non-human (ex. Animal or object) given human like qualities or the object given life-like qualities (EX. Lightning danced across the sky, The leaves waved in the wind, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed)
5. Rhyme that happens at the ends of lines
6. The opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended.
7. An example is: "My heart's a stereo."
8. Give an example of personification
9. The author's perspective concentrates on the vantage point of the speaker, or "teller", of the story or poem (1st person:the speaker is a character in the story or poem and tells it from his/her perspective, 3rd person limited:the speaker is not part of the story, but tells about the other characters but limits information about what one character sees and feels, 3rd person omniscient:the speaker is not part of the story, but is able to "know" and describe what all characters are thinking)
10. This term is used for poetry that does NOT rhyme, or have regular meter:
11. Two ideas/subjects that do NOT connect, but put together using "is" in between to make a deeper meaning is ..... (Example:War is peace)
12. "The sun kissed my cheeks as I walked through the park." What type of figurative language is used?
13. Poetry that follows no rules. Just about anything goes.
14. What is a Haiku?
15. Approximate or Slant rhyme
16. A unified group of lines in poetry.
17. The pattern that the last word in the line of a poem follows
18. Choose the example that includes alliteration.
19. Figure of speech in which the words like or as are used to compare two apparently dissimilar items
20. Which example uses a metaphor?
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