Poetry Terms Quiz 193 (20 MCQs)

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1. Poetry that has a plot, characters, and tells a story is called .....
2. Which type of writing is written in stanzas?
3. Match the word to the definition:the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words
4. A lyric poem of fourteen lines commonly written in iambic pentameter.
5. The attitude that the AUTHOR has towards a subject is
6. The use of a word, phrase, or line more than once.
7. What is the voice of who's telling the poem like the narrator in a story?
8. When two (or more) words make the same sound at the end of the word.
9. An elegy is a poem of ..... reflection, typically for the dead.
10. ..... is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases several times to make an idea clearer and more emphatic.
11. Language that appeals to the five senses-sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch; sensory detail
12. The author's right to break the rules of proper writing in order to achieve an effect or get a point across.
13. When referring to writing choices made in the poem, you refer to the
14. What word is defined as "a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them" ?
15. What is the attitude of the author toward the audience, the characters, the subject, or the work itself?
16. Poem that forms the shape of a diamond
17. ..... is when words have the same ending sounds.
18. A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form-usually lines and stanzas.
19. He's as strong as an ox
20. A poem, discourse, or utterance of a character in a drama that has the form of a monologue or gives the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections