Poetry Terms Quiz 64 (20 MCQs)

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1. "Silence your cellphone so it doesn't buzz and beep during A Quiet Place."
2. Repetition of initial sounds
3. What is the poetry term for the repetition of vowel sounds?
4. Use of words, phrases, symbols & ideas to evoke mental images/sense impressions; often characterized by use of figures of speech, elaborate expressions, sound devices, or changes in syntax
5. In Robert Frost's Poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay", this line is an example of: "So Eden sank to grief, /So dawn goes down to day."
6. A poem that is 14 lines long and that utilizes one of two specific meters (rhythm) and rhyme schemes
7. The repetition of the same or similar stressed sounds in words
8. Which is an example of personification?
9. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words is
10. A figure of speech that offers an exaggerated or extravagant statement (that is not meant to be taken literally) in order to highlight a point is called
11. Simple, narrative verse which tells a story to be sung or recited. Example: "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
12. A change in tone, mood, setting, subject, or characterization that affect's the poem's meaning
13. A quatrain is a stanza with .....
14. The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in the wordex. leaf and loaf; roam and room.ex. It was just a little teeter-totter.
15. The giving of human qualities to objects, animals, or things.
16. A pair of lines, usually rhymed; this is the shortest stanza
17. What form of poetry tells a story, may rhyme, has a story plot, setting, and characters?
18. Compare unlike things (using like or as)
19. It is the repetition of similar vowel sounds
20. Words that end in the same sound, end rhyme