Poetry Terms Quiz 76 (20 MCQs)

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1. Fixed form
2. How a poem or text is organized internally based on its ideas
3. What is it called when poetry does not have a rhyme or a regular meter?
4. Is honor or glorifying an event or inanimate object. Feelings not emotional.
5. What do words like "Bang!" and "Meow!" exemplify in poetry?
6. Words linked because of sound
7. Identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds (also known as near rhyme or slant rhyme):home and same, worth and breath, trophy and daffy.
8. "I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me"is an example of
9. Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.What is this an example of?
10. Words like "achoo! pow! whoosh! splat!" are examples of which literary term?
11. A repetition of similar sounds.Example:She sells seashells by the seashore.
12. When something unexpected happens
13. Which word means "an attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words" ?
14. A two line stanza
15. What type of language is a collection of words and phrases that shares an idea beyond the literal meaning?
16. Rhymes that contain two or more syllables (ex. "lyrical line" and "Einstein")
17. A one word subject present throughout a literary work. Can be used to create a main topic.
18. The beat and pace of a poem and is created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
19. Which word is defined as the "repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words, such as the s in sleep-song" ?
20. Literal language