Poetry Terms Quiz 472 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is an approximate rhyme?
2. Lines and sentences are the same.
3. The feeling the reader gets when reading a work
4. The repetition of vowel sounds close together is an example of .....
5. A rhyme within a line of poetry
6. A comparison which asserts that one thing is the equivalent (or equal to) another:
7. The group of lines or "paragraph" of a poem is called a
8. What is a poet?
9. Occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
10. Poetry whose shape matches topics of the poem
11. Feminine rhyme
12. The lumberjack leveled the many trees, and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.
13. Almost rhyme, or halt rhyme
14. The overall feeling a poem expresses
15. The voice that speaks to the reader
16. Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
17. A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human characteristics
18. Poem that forms the shape of its subject
19. The element of design is slight. The lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning, as paragraphs are in prose. Could contain rhyme, but not in an organized form
20. Language that uses comparisons and non-literal meanings