Test: Poetry - 19 Questions

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6 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. The use of symbols or things that represent something else.
  2. A comparison of two unlike things that uses the words "like" or "as" to make the comparison.
  3. a fourteen-line poem written in rhymed iambic pentameter
  4. the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in written or spoken language
  5. a poem that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme
  6. a pattern of rhyming words at the end of the lines in a poem

6 True/False Question

  1. Hyperbole → A comparison of two unlike things that uses the words "like" or "as" to make the comparison.

          

  2. Assonance → the repetition of the same vowel sound within neighboring words

          

  3. Speaker → The imaginary voice that a poet uses when writing a poem. The speaker is the "narrator" of the poem.

          

  4. Onomatopoeia → when words sound like what they are or do

          

  5. Narrative poem → a relatively long poem that tells a story

          

  6. Alliteration → the repetition of the same initial sound in neighboring words

          

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