ela poetry terms pt 2

Question 1

internal rhyme

Answer 1

rhyme that occurs within a line

Question 2

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore–

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping….

Answer 2

example of internal rhyme

Question 3

lyric poem

Answer 3

any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feeling.

Question 4

examples of lyric poems:

Answer 4

sonnets and odes

Question 5

masculine rhyme

Answer 5

rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words.

Question 6

“keep, sleep” “glow, no”

Answer 6

examples of masculine rhymes

Question 7

metaphor

Answer 7

comparision is expressed wihout using like or as

Question 8

meter

Answer 8

the repetiiton of a regular rhymthic unit in a line of poetry. MUSICAL QUALITY. each unit of meter is known as a foot

Question 9

metonymy

Answer 9

substituion of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself.

Question 10

king->”crown”

Answer 10

example of metonymy

Question 11

mixed metaphors

Answer 11

one metaphor with another immediately following it

Question 12

“I smell a rat. I see it floating in the air. I shall nip it in its bud.”

Answer 12

example of mixed metaphors

Question 13

narrative poem

Answer 13

non-dramatic poem telling a story/presents a narrative.

Question 14

examples of narrative poems:

Answer 14

epics and ballads

Question 15

octave

Answer 15

an 8-line stanza

Question 16

octave also refers to what?

Answer 16

the first division of an italian sonnet.

Question 17

oxymoron

Answer 17

a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression

Question 18

“pretty ugly”

Answer 18

example of oxymoron

Question 19

paradox

Answer 19

appears to be contradictory but is actually kinda true and makes sense

Question 20

parallelism

Answer 20

a similar gramatical structure within a line or lines of poetry.”

Question 21

“musing, venturing, throwing, seeking…

Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold, till the gossamer thread..”

Answer 21

example of parralelism

Question 22

poetic foot

Answer 22

a group of syllables in verse usually consiting of one stressedsyllable and one or two unstressed syllables associated with it.

Question 23

pun

Answer 23

a play on words that are identical/similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanigs

Question 24

Quatrain

Answer 24

a four line stanza.

Question 25

refrain

Answer 25

a group of words forming a phrase and consists of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at THE END of a stanza.

Question 26

jump back, honey, jump back

Answer 26

example of refrain

Question 27

rhyme royal

Answer 27

seven line stanza of iambic pentameter “ababbcc” rhymes.

Question 28

rhythym

Answer 28

the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables/

Question 29

satire

Answer 29

writing that arouses a reader’s disapproval of an object by RIDICULE. EXPOSES ERRORS

Question 30

scansion

Answer 30

a system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the types of feet per line.

Question 31

monometer

Answer 31

one foot per line

Question 32

dimeter

Answer 32

two feet per line

Question 33

iambic pentameter

Answer 33

a line consisting of five iambic feet

Question 34

sestet

Answer 34

a six line stanza

Question 35

sestet most commonly refers to…

Answer 35

the second division of an italian sonnet

Question 36

sonnet

Answer 36

A FOURTEEN LINE IAMBIC PENTAMETER POEM.

Question 37

ITALIAN SONNET RHYME

Answer 37

abba, abba, cde, cdee

Question 38

ENGLISH SONNET RHYME

Answer 38

abab, cdcd, efef, gg

Question 39

synecdoche

Answer 39

form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole

Question 40

“field hands” for manual laborers

Answer 40

synecdoche example

Question 41

syntax

Answer 41

the ordering of words into patterns or sentences

Question 42

tercet

Answer 42

a stanza of 3 lines in which EACH LINE ENDS WITH THE SAME RHYME

Question 43

terza rima

Answer 43

a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc