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The Elements of Poetry

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?

  1. Simile
  2. Metaphor
  3. Personification
  4. Alliteration
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a figure of speech that gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea?

  1. Simile
  2. Metaphor
  3. Personification
  4. Alliteration
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a figure of speech that uses words that imitate the sounds they describe?

  1. Simile
  2. Metaphor
  3. Personification
  4. Onomatopoeia
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry?

  1. Meter
  2. Rhyme
  3. Assonance
  4. Consonance
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for the repetition of the same sound at the end of two or more words in a line of poetry?

  1. Meter
  2. Rhyme
  3. Assonance
  4. Consonance
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for the repetition of the same vowel sound in a line of poetry?

  1. Meter
  2. Rhyme
  3. Assonance
  4. Consonance
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for the repetition of the same consonant sound in a line of poetry?

  1. Meter
  2. Rhyme
  3. Assonance
  4. Consonance
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a poem that tells a story?

  1. Narrative poem
  2. Lyric poem
  3. Dramatic poem
  4. Epic poem
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a poem that expresses the poet's personal thoughts and feelings?

  1. Narrative poem
  2. Lyric poem
  3. Dramatic poem
  4. Epic poem
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a poem that is meant to be performed?

  1. Narrative poem
  2. Lyric poem
  3. Dramatic poem
  4. Epic poem
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a long poem that tells the story of a hero's journey?

  1. Narrative poem
  2. Lyric poem
  3. Dramatic poem
  4. Epic poem
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a poem that is written in a fixed form, such as a sonnet or a haiku?

  1. Free verse poem
  2. Formal verse poem
  3. Blank verse poem
  4. Rhymed verse poem
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a poem that is written without a fixed form or meter?

  1. Free verse poem
  2. Formal verse poem
  3. Blank verse poem
  4. Rhymed verse poem
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a poem that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter?

  1. Free verse poem
  2. Formal verse poem
  3. Blank verse poem
  4. Rhymed verse poem
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a poem that is written in rhyming iambic pentameter?

  1. Free verse poem
  2. Formal verse poem
  3. Blank verse poem
  4. Rhymed verse poem
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