Poetry Terms Quiz 91 (20 MCQs)

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1. It is the repetition of vowel sounds in words.
2. Words that imitate the sounds they make
3. Repeated sounds at the end of lines of poetry
4. Speech patterns used in specific regions
5. Four lines in a sonnet or in any poem
6. The novels we read are .....
7. This is when an author constructs parts of a sentence to be grammatically similar.
8. What type of poem has 14 lines written in a certain meter and with a special rhyme scheme?
9. Figure of speech intentionally used to make a situation seem less important it really is
10. A word that is used more than one time in a line is called .....
11. Poems are arranged in lines. Lines can be .....
12. This ..... you will be learning subtraction
13. A three-line Japanese form that describes something in nature. The first and third lines each have five syllables, and the second line has seven syllables.
14. A type of irony in which the reader is aware of a plot development but the characters of the story are unaware.
15. A poem that has no set length, rhythm, or rhyming pattern.
16. Giving non human objects people qualities or traits
17. In the fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf, " a shepherd boy repeatedly tricks people in his village by falsely claiming that a wolf is coming to eat his flock. When a wolf actually comes and the boy cries for help, nobody believes him or comes to his aid. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? Lucy warned her youngest son not to cry wolf while wrestling with his older brother.
18. Hendecasyllable
19. Japanese verse form most often composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
20. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex. "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes;A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life."