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1. The use of words that imitate the sound of something is called __________________.

a. alliteration

b. onomatopoeia

c. rhyme

2. The basic rhythmic structure of a verse in poetry is called ___________________.

a. meter

b. rhyme

c. alliteration

3. A(n) ______________ is figurative language made up of two or more elements that contradict themselves.

a. free verse

b. meter

c. oxymoron

4. Combining pieces of information to form an idea is called __________________.

a. synthesizing

b. rhythm

c. alliteration

5. Which of the following terms means an arrangement of words that have the same beginning consonant?

a. alliteration

b. free verse

c. rhyme

6. The firecracker sounded with a loud BOOM!

a. rhyme

b. onomatopoeia

c. alliteration

7. Which of the following is a line of verse in poetry that is made up of five pairs of short/long or unstressed/stressed syllables?

a. alliteration

b. iambic pentameter

c. free verse

8. Which of the following was an English short-story writer, poet, novelist, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907? He was also known for writing The Jungle Book.

a. J.R.R. Tolkien

b. Rudyard Kipling

c. Walt Whitman

9. Which of the following was an Irish writer, poet, one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s, and was best known for writing The Importance of Being Ernest?

a. Walt Whitman

b. Oscar Wilde

c. H. G. Wells

10. Which of the following was an American poet, essayist, and journalist? He was part of the transition between transcendentalism (religious and philosophical movement) and realism.

a. Walt Whitman

b. Edgar Allen Poe

c. Victor Hugo

11. Which of the following was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist, and inventor of jazz poetry?

a. F. Scott Fitzgerald

b. Langston Hughes

c. William Faulkner

12. Which of the following was an American Poet Laureate, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist?

a. Maya Angelou

b. Agatha Christie

c. Emily Bronte

13. Which of the following was an American poet, lived in isolation with her family, influenced by the Metaphysical (bold, intellectual) English poets of the17th century, and wrote forty volumes of nearly 1,800 poems bound by hand, which were later discovered and published?

a. Jane Austen

b. Willa Cather

c. Emily Dickinson