Quiz Time!

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1. What is the musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain sound patterns?

2. What is a comparison between two unlike things that uses words such as "like" or "as?"

3. What is the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning?

4. What is the language that appeals to the senses?

5. What is a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes?

6. What is a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations is:

7. What is the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them, in words that are close together in a poem. (example: mean and scream)

8. The repetition of the same, or very similar, consonant sounds in words that are close together.

9. A five-lined humorous poem that follows an AABBA rhyming pattern is:

10. A five-lined verse; line 1 - title (noun), line 2 - two adjs., line 3 - three verbs, line 4 - sentence showing feeling, line 5 - synonym for title is:

11. A three-lined, unrhymed verse that follows a 5-7-5 syllable pattern - usually about nature is:

12. Poem consisting of seven lines in which the purpose is to go from the subject at the top of the diamond to another totally different and sometimes opposite subject at the bottom is:

13. A poem in which each letter of a person's name is used as the initial letter for one line of poetry is:

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