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Commonly Used Poetic Techniques. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

a six line unit of poetry:
a) septet
b) sestet
c) octave
d) couplet

a comparison of two things using like or as:
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) personification
d) onomatopoeia

The pattern of unstressed, unstressed, stressed syllables:
a) dactyl
b) anapest
c) double rhyme
d) spondee

The number of feet within a line of verse:
a) slant rhyme
b) double rhyme
c) meter
d) quatrain

an unstressed, stressed foot of poetry:
a) iamb
b) diction
c) rhyme
d) feet

A stressed, unstressed, unstressed foot of verse:
a) dactyl
b) anapest
c) pyrrhic
d) monologue

stressed, stressed, a 2 syllable foot of poetry:
a) dactyl
b) spondee
c) anapest
d) trochee

five line (often humorous) poem following AABBA and anapestic trimeter:
a) Ode
b) Ballad
c) Limerick
d) Sonnet

A fourteen line poem of 10 syllables per line:
a) Sonnet
b) Limerick
c) Quatrain
d) Ode

A form of Lyric poetry using irregular meter and which addresses a particular subject:
a) Sonnet
b) Ode
c) Ballad
d) Cinquain

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