Poetry Terms Quiz 377 (20 MCQs)

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1. When a sentence in a poem continues beyond the end of a line, that is called .....
2. Leaving a car wash at the beginning of a downpour.
3. The pattern of end rhyme
4. The repetition of syllable sounds is called .....
5. ..... is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
6. The poet's message to the reader
7. This occurs when one line ends with a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line
8. True of False:The speaker and the poet are the same person.
9. A phrase that puts an image in your head, like "the rain poured down, drenching the field and creating small swimming holes for all the animals"
10. That fat cat weighs a thousand pounds!
11. The most common sound device in poetry
12. Multi-connector
13. A ..... is a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines.
14. A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner
15. Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of each line.
16. What technique shows the repetition of a vowel sound?
17. A specific cultural phrase that is not meant to be taken literally
18. Two rhyming lines, one right after the first
19. A pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter and expresses a single idea
20. What do we call a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" ?