Poetry Terms Quiz 361 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is being personified:The moon guided me through the forest.
2. Writing or spoken language in its ordinary paragraph form, without metrical structure. A short story is in prose. Prose is used in Shakespeare's plays for characters who don't have power or prestige.
3. EX:The lightening danced across the night sky.
4. Two rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter
5. That cat sat back is an example of
6. Determined using the combination of form, voice, and poetic devices; central message
7. The prominence or emphasis given to particular syllables
8. Repeating a word or phrase within a poem
9. The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story is the .....
10. Which of the terms below describes the persona that is addressing the audience or another character?
11. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering, thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
12. The flow of the beat in a poem.
13. Movement with regular repetition, used to bring out the musical quality of language
14. The use, more than once, of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, or sentence.
15. He's never been the same after his puppy passed away. My mama says he's as mad as a hatter.
16. When a line of poetry wraps around to another line
17. ..... is when a word imitates a sound.
18. The AUTHOR'S attitude toward the characters and events in the story
19. "I sang like a bird" is an example of what?
20. What word means descriptions that appeal to the five senses.