Ch. 3 Terms

Question 0

A lyric poem of fourteen iambic-pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to one of two patterns.

Answer 0

Sonnet

Question 1

The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry.

Answer 1

Meter

Question 2

Identical sound in corresponding words or phrases.

List and define all types of rhyme from your textbook glossary.

Answer 2

Rhyme

Question 3

A four-line stanza, one of the most common stanza forms in English poetry.

Answer 3

Quatrain

Question 4

The addressing of some no personal (or absent) object as if it were able to reply (“O, Death, where is thy string.”)

Answer 4

Apostrophe

Question 5

Broadly, the expression of one thing in terms of another. In stricter usage, it is the stated or implied equivalence of two things. (“I am the bred of life.”)

Answer 5

Metaphor

Question 6

A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature. A work may have many themes. It’s major theme is its main point, similar to the thesis of an essay. It may explicit (stated outright) or implicit (it’s concept must be inferred).

Answer 6

Theme

Question 7

A striking and often elaborate comparison carried out in considerable detail.

Answer 7

Conceit

Question 8

Unrhymed iambic-pentameter.

Answer 8

Blank verse