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Poetry Terms Quiz 345 (20 MCQs)

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1. A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
2. The speaker is not part of the story, but tells about the other characters through the limited perceptions of one other person.
3. Two or more words that have the same ending sound
4. Paraphrasing means to .....
5. Two forms of poetic "feet" :an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one (preVENT)/an accented syllable followed by an accented one (FOOTball)
6. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.Which device below is shown in the above line of poetry?
7. Using key words or phrases more than once to draw attention
8. The author's specific word choice is
9. A reference to another piece of work (writing, movie, pop culture) within a text. "We aren't in Kansas anymore" would be an ..... to the Wizard of Oz.
10. Big bumbling bumblebees rode light, lilting breezes
11. The pattern of end rhyme in a poem Ex. (aabba)
12. He is the only honest thief.
13. A poem that has no regular patterns in line length, rhyme, or rhythym
14. This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line. Ex. If this were a poem, this would bean example of the technique.
15. Poems are often written in paragraphs called .....
16. A pun uses like or as?
17. An animal is given human-like qualities or an object is given life-like qualities
18. A unit of poetic lines
19. The repetition of a single consonant sound in words that are close together.
20. A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to something nonhuman.
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