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Poetry Terms Quiz 93 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which word means:'To compare two things without using the words like or as?'
2. A poem usually written to praise or express sorrow for someone who has died
3. Sounds that resemble what is being described
4. "I shall be telling this with a sigh" is an example of
5. A figure of speech which compares two unlike things using like or as to show a likeness between the two things.
6. ..... is the use of a word or phrase, such as swoosh or clank, that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.
7. Repetition of two or more vowel sounds within a line. Burnt the fire of thine eyes(William Blake, "The Tiger" ) And I do smile, such cordial light(Emily Dickinson, "My Life Had Stood, A Loaded Gun" )
8. The pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines, such as ababbcc.
9. Dramatic irony is when
10. In a poem, the end of one line and the start of the next is called a
11. Ballad is.....
12. It is a humorous five-line verse. In it, the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme as do the third and fourth.
13. What are the three types of irony?
14. An overstatement or exaggeration. It is used to show emphasis and can often be found within a simile or metaphor
15. The life lesson or moral
16. The repetition of consonant sounds, generally at the beginnings of words
17. "The sunflower danced in the wind" is an example of
18. "whoosh, tick-tock, zoom, purr" are examples of .....
19. When a writer gives hints that suggest future events in a story
20. The reason why an author writes a poem
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