2023 Poetry Unit Test
GRADED A+ (ACTUAL TEST ) Questions and Answers (Solved)
- These help poets add natural pauses by breaking up a poem into
many individual parts and a capital letter usually introduces the beginning of one.
Answer: lines
- Type of rhyme that occurs when the ends of lines share the same
sound-
Answer: end rhyme
- Type of rhyme that occurs within a single line, as in
"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary."
Answer: internal rhyme
- A pair of rhyming lines that usually have the same meter and
length
Answer: -rhyming couplets
- Writing that is innovative, imaginative, and not meant to be taken
literally.-
Answer: figurative language
- A type of figurative language where two things are being
compared by describing one thing as if it were something else.
Answer: metaphor
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- A type of figurative language where two things are being
compared using like or as.
Answer: simile
- The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
Answer: alliteration
- The repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables
with different vowel sounds, like end and hand.
Answer: consonance
- The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end
with different consonant sounds, like fade and hay.
Answer: assonance
- The use of words that imitate sounds, like buzz, stomp or clap.
Answer: onomatopoeia
- Giving human qualities to something nonhuman.
Answer: personification
- The arrangement of groups of lines to create an appearance on
the page or to organize thoughts.
Answer: stanzas
- The pattern of rhyme in a poem, which is written in letters like
abb
Answer: rhyme scheme
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