Poetry Terms Quiz 105 (20 MCQs)

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1. Crux
2. The point of view or narrator of a poem
3. A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect. Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all five hundred thousand different ways?
4. "My mother thinks I am her star except when I raid her cookie jar!"
5. Unrhymed poetry in iambic pentamenter
6. The repeated use of a word or phrase in a poem; used for emphasis and it helps the reader remember the important parts of the poem.
7. A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
8. Words that *almost* rhyme but not exactly, like 'wane' and 'again.'
9. ATMOSPHERE
10. The most simple/central unit of a poem
11. The person who wrote the poem is the
12. Type of writing in which rhythm and sounds of words are as important as their definitions
13. The rhyming of words within a line of poetry
14. It is a poem of 17 syllables
15. What is the term for the overall feeling or atmosphere of a poem?
16. "It's raining cats and dogs" is an example of a-
17. What is a literary device that is the repetition of sound that is identical or similar?
18. Allegory
19. This is the general definition of a comparison of any two things
20. A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in poem