Poetry Terms Quiz 478 (20 MCQs)

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1. A type of free verse poem where the first letter of each line, read down the page, spells the subject of them poem
2. The emotion in the poem created by the poet and also what the reader feels while reading the poem
3. 3-line Japanese verse; 5-7-5 pattern
4. A direct comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."
5. Divisions of a poem
6. A sentence of a poem
7. Stylistic device in which the repeated vowel sound to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
8. What type of poetry has no pattern?
9. What is the term for the main idea or message of a poem?
10. The repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words
11. In poetry, a stanza is like a ..... in prose.
12. "Sally saw a starfish singing by the sea" is an example of
13. Words or phrases in writing that should not be taken literally:
14. Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words
15. Finding the meaning of the poem is called
16. Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
17. "The wave was a tall monster" is an example of:
18. The pattern of rhyme
19. "Nature's first green is gOLD, Her hardest hue to hOLD.Her early leaf's a flOWER;But only so an hOUR."is an example of
20. The repetition of vowel sounds, like the ones in "Hear the mellow wedding bells! From the molten, golden notes!" is an example of which sound device?