Poetic Terms Review

The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader is known as

• Central idea

• Theme

• Alliteration

• Supporting details

A unified group of lines in poetry, often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.

• Enjambment

• Theme

• Paragraph

• Stanza

The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Which statement best defines simile?

• An analogy that uses like or as

• A direct comparison between two unalike things or ideas

• An indirect comparison using like or as

• An indirect comparison between two unalike things or ideas

What is enjambment?

• The main/central idea of a stanza that extends over the entire poem

• When one line becomes a stanza

• When one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line

• A paragraph in poetry that has white space and contains more than one idea

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• Repetition

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Alliteration

A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art

• Tone

• Allusion

• Reference

• Andalusia

Which definition best fits the word tone?

• The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character

• The way the poem's language makes the audience or reader feel about the poem/subject/character

• A musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.

• The feeling that you get when you read a piece of literature.

The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Consonant

• Assonance

An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning

• Symbol

• Reference

• Motif

• Allusion