Poetry Terms Quiz 62 (20 MCQs)

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1. The most important point in a line of poetry; the pause or breath at the end of a line
2. "loud tie / soft blue / feel blue / noisy painting / She looks hot. / painful thought / screaming pink / taste in clothes / smell fear / sweet person / music stinks / thick words" are examples of .....
3. The rhyme scheme of a poem is .....
4. An emotional or social association with a word, giving meaning beyond the literal definition
5. What is a metaphor in poetry?
6. Why do poets use repetition?
7. Slant Rhyme
8. When what is expected is different from what actually happens
9. What is a synecdoche?
10. What is the definition of simile?
11. Comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as."
12. Imagery that uses words and phrases that appeal to the five senses:sight, sound, smell, touch, & taste
13. The holy time is quiet as a nun(William Wordsworth, "On the Beach at Calais" )
14. A group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines. It usually develops one idea. Something like a paragraph in a prose.
15. Sections (paragraphs) of a poem are called
16. Carla put her foot in her mouth really means .....
17. That man is a snake.
18. The way the words, lines, groups of lines are arranged
19. ..... takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same consonant sounds
20. "Winter's icy grip caused people to shudder and flock back to their homes." What is being personified?