Poetry Terms Quiz 203 (20 MCQs)

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1. When a writer compares one thing to another.
2. The use of words to imitate sounds
3. Lines of a poem that are separated into groups
4. A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something else.
5. The vantage point from which a narrative is told The first person, third person (limited or omniscient)
6. Poetic form reforms to a poem's
7. A poem that uses the letters in a topic word to begin each line
8. A group of lines in poetry, typically more than two, that form the basic unit of the poem.
9. A poem where the first letter of each line form a word or phrase when read together.
10. Gives human traits and feelings to things that are not human
11. Form means
12. What is the attitude of the author toward a subject or an audience?
13. An exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect
14. A pattern of lines in a poem that are separated from other groups of lines is called a .....
15. The writer's attitude towards his or her subject.
16. Lines 1 & 4 rhyme, and lines 2 & 3 rhyme
17. A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
18. The beat of a poem or song, created by stressed and unstressed syllables
19. What is the correct term for the following definition? Compares unlikely things to help readers see them in a new way/carries a metaphor through the entire poem or, at least, a long part of it.
20. Which of the following contains a PUN?