Poetry Terms Quiz 80 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following literary tools is a comparison that uses "like" or "as" ?
2. Using the same sound or letter at the beginning of words or lines
3. Specific type of alliteration that relies on the repetition of soft consonant sounds in words to create a wooshing or hissing sound in the writing
4. The house was a wreck.
5. A five line humorous poem
6. Words with the same ending sound that appear at the end of a line in poetry
7. The repetition of the sound of a vowel
8. Rhetorical device in which words initially presented are restated in reverse order.
9. Words that appeal to the five senses
10. Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste)
11. A couplet is 2 lines
12. The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the ends of lines of poetry
13. A big idea addressed throughout a work, usually expressed as an abstract noun, like "love"
14. "The flowers waltzed in the gentle summer breeze." is an example of
15. Using language that creates mental images in order to describe something; includes details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
16. To have put off until a future time.
17. Most basic unit of poetry; similar to a sentence in prose
18. Meter is best defined as.....
19. Which term is this the definition for:Recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines.
20. Which type of poem is three lines split into syllables of 5, 7, 5?