Poetry Terms Quiz Flashcards
1
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“Builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair”
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Antithesis
2
Q
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”
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Assonance
3
Q
“It is not nor it cannot come to good,
But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue”
A
Blank Verse
4
Q
“What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore”
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Cacophony
5
Q
“But how of Cawdor?/The Thane of Cawdor lives.”
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Caesura
6
Q
“A broken heart is like a damaged clock”
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Conceit
7
Q
“The early bird gets the worm”
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Consonance
8
Q
“So long lives this, and this gives life to thee”
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Euphony
9
Q
“I wandered lonely as a cloud”
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Hyperbole
10
Q
"”not bad” translation “good”
A
Litos
11
Q
“come live/with me/and be/my love”
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Meter
12
Q
a “crown” to mean “king”
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Metonymy
13
Q
“The more you give the more you get”
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Paradox
14
Q
“Cock-a-doodle-doo”
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Onomatopoeia
15
Q
“I’ve got wheels” for “I have a car”
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Synecdoche
