Poetry Terms Quiz 361 (20 MCQs)

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1. The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story is the .....
2. Which of the terms below describes the persona that is addressing the audience or another character?
3. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering, thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
4. The flow of the beat in a poem.
5. Movement with regular repetition, used to bring out the musical quality of language
6. The use, more than once, of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, or sentence.
7. He's never been the same after his puppy passed away. My mama says he's as mad as a hatter.
8. When a line of poetry wraps around to another line
9. ..... is when a word imitates a sound.
10. The AUTHOR'S attitude toward the characters and events in the story
11. "I sang like a bird" is an example of what?
12. What word means descriptions that appeal to the five senses.
13. The snow felt like daggers against my skin.
14. A two line unit in a poem, typically rhyming
15. What's the meaning of this hyperbole? "Shawn would move mountains for Angela."
16. Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
17. The recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses
18. A ballad is similar to a .....
19. A direct comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use like or as
20. What form of poetry expresses strong feelings, can rhyme, and is songlike?