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Poetry Terms Quiz 88 (20 MCQs)

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1. When two unlike things are being compared using like or as, it is called a
2. Contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true
3. "I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland, To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men, Who will cut off your nostrils with a sharp bronze sword; He will tear of your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw." ..... Homer, The Odyssey Which word best describes the tone of the passage?
4. An organic poem
5. Two lines of poetry joined by a similar rhyme
6. A pause created within a line of poetry made by inserting a punctuation mark (comma, semicolon, or period)
7. A line of poetry that ends with a period, comma, or other method of pause
8. What word means the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
9. Ballad poem
10. A humorous imitation of an art form
11. How an author feels about a subject.
12. Which of the two basic elements is the main unit of poems?
13. What poetic device is exemplified by the following phrase: "all hands on deck" or "wheels" meaning a car?
14. What is a reference to another work of literature, art, person, or event?
15. Writing that creates pictures in the reader's mind.
16. An animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities is called .....
17. An overstatement or extravagant exaggeration, so far exaggerated that it cannot be taken literally. I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse.
18. Attributing human characteristics to a non-human thing is
19. When a poet uses descriptive words that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and/or taste, the poet is using .....
20. Words that make a sound
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