Poetry Terms Quiz 339 (20 MCQs)

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1. A cultural or historical reference or quotation that authors assume their readers will recognize.
2. This has a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
3. Denotation literal meaning
4. A pair of rhyming lines in a poem. Shakespeare ends all his sonnets with one.
5. The attitude of the speaker in a poem (how the speaker feels).
6. The comparison of two unlike things that doe not use like or as.
7. ..... involves giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.
8. Division of poetry names for the number of lines it contains
9. 1st Person Point of View
10. Which does not belong?
11. When a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
12. Stressed syllables are
13. Like a paragraph but in poem
14. The ball jumped out of the receiver's hands.
15. A phrase, idea, or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature
16. When words in the same line of a poem have both consonance and assonance (similar sounds).
17. What is tone in writing?
18. Words that make a sound (pop, crack, whoosh, hiss)
19. "When Carly eats spaghetti, sauce slurping and smacking around her mouth. She scrapes the toast against her plate, crunching, grinding every mouthful." is an example of which sound device?
20. A grouping of lines in a poem (like a paragraph). Often each stanza is the same length and follows the same pattern of meter or rhyme.