Poetry Unit Review

The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Repetition

• Alliteration

The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character.

• Mood

• Theme

• Diction

• Tone

This occurs when one line ends without a pause o any punctuation and continues onto the next line.

• Onomatopoeia

• Enjambment

• Ballad

• Meter

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

• Theme

• Diction

• Symbol

• Stanza

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

• Repetition

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Alliteration

The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number o syllables per line.

• Rhythm

• Meter

• Free Verse

• Diction

The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sound in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ______ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.

• Rhythm

• Meter

• Free Verse

• Verse

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

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Retetition

• Alliteration

A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between the sections.

• Verse

• Free Verse

• Stanza

• Meter

"Love is a battlefield" is an example of a........

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Metaphor