Poetry Terms Quiz 483 (20 MCQs)

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1. When the words start with the same letter.
2. What is the term for the main message or lesson in a poem?
3. A thought or sense, phrase or clause, in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break, but moves over to the next line-no pause or break
4. Emotional quality of a story or poem
5. What is meter measured in?
6. When a reader or audience is aware of something that a character isn't
7. Rhyme which occurs within a single line of verse
8. The time, place, and cirmcumstances that the poem is about.
9. Type of poetry that is meant to be performed
10. Giving inanimate objects human qualities, such as "the sun kissed her cheeks on the hot summer day" is known as
11. A group of words in poetry that may or may not be a complete sentence
12. Repeating similar sounds of consonants, not necessarily at the beginning of the words
13. Which of the following is the definition of tone?
14. ..... is a technique in which the normal order of words is reversed. This is often done to maintain a particular rhyme scheme or meter, and sometimes for artistic effect.
15. A reference to another text, historical event, art, etc.
16. Not-rhyming lines that follow the natural rhythms of speech
17. Using word with the same or similar ending sounds
18. A poem that sounds similar to everyday speech (with no rhyme or meter) is called .....
19. ..... is the repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words.
20. The rhyme scheme of a sonnet is .....