Poetry Terms Quiz 69 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the term for the use of words that imitate sounds?
2. A rhyme that occurs in two consecutive (back to back) lines of poetry is called a .....
3. A Simple Love Poem Your gran'ma, in her youth, was quiteAs blithe a little maid as you.And, though her hair is snowy white, Her eyes still have their maiden blue, And on her checks, as fair as thine, Methinks a girlish blush would glowIf she recalled the valentineShe got, ah! many years ago. A valorous youth loved gran'ma then, And wooed her in that auld lang syne;And first he told his secret whenHe sent the maid that valentine, No perfumed page nor sheet of goldWas that first hint of love he sent, But with the secret gran'pa told ..... "I love you" ..... gran'ma was content. Go, ask your gran'ma if you will, If ..... though her head be bowed and gray ..... If ..... though her feeble pulse be chill ..... True love abideth not for aye;By that quaint portrait on the wall, That smiles upon her from above, Methinks your gran'ma can recallThe sweet divinity of love. Dear Elsie, here 's no page of gold ..... No sheet embossed with cunning art ..... But here 's a solemn pledge of old:"I love you, love, with all my heart."And if in what I send you hereYou read not all of love expressed, Go ..... go to gran'ma, Elsie dear, And she will tell you all the rest! Which sentence summarizes the speaker's thoughts in the poem?
4. Internal Rhyme
5. Language that strongly appeals to the senses
6. Ode
7. An exaggeration or overstatement
8. This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
9. It is the repetition of vowel sounds within words.
10. A reference to a famous person, place, or event
11. Lyric poetry.....
12. The words share EITHER the same vowel or consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH
13. A reference made in one literary work to an element that appears in another literary work.
14. A stanza of a poem or song
15. The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader.
16. What is the definition of onomatopoeia?
17. Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat
18. What is the definition of the term:End Rhyme?
19. A pattern of rhyming words in a poem.Example:ABABAB
20. It is a poem of 14 lines