Poetry Terms Quiz 483 (20 MCQs)

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1. An address to an absent person, an abstraction, or an inanimate object as if it were able to reply
2. What is a theme?
3. The person who wrote the poem; the author of the poem
4. A group of lines in a poem. People often mistakenly call them paragraphs.
5. Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single person; usually musical
6. "There was a Young Lady whose nose, Was so long that it reached to her toes;"
7. A 5 line, rhymed, rhythmic poem that is usually humorous.
8. Read the following sentence: "I am as smart as a fox." This is an example of a .....
9. She tried to make a short version of the story or ..... it.
10. ..... is a big exaggeration, usually with humor.
11. What is a word that represents a sound?
12. The use of repeated words, phrases, images, or symbols
13. When the words start with the same letter.
14. What is the term for the main message or lesson in a poem?
15. A thought or sense, phrase or clause, in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break, but moves over to the next line-no pause or break
16. Emotional quality of a story or poem
17. What is meter measured in?
18. When a reader or audience is aware of something that a character isn't
19. Rhyme which occurs within a single line of verse
20. The time, place, and cirmcumstances that the poem is about.