Elements Of Poetry

Question 1

Can be selected and grouped together to achieve specific effects

Answer 1

Sounds of words

Question 2

Repeated CONSONANT SOUNDS at the beginning of words

Answer 2

Alliteration

Question 3

Repeated VOWEL SOUNDS in words placed near each other

Answer 3

Assonance

Question 4

Words that imitate NATURAL SOUNDS

Answer 4

Onomatopoeia

Question 5

The purposeful re-use of words and phrases

Answer 5

Repetition

Question 6

Words are arranged according to stressed and unstressed

Answer 6

Rhythm

Question 7

Rhythm makes a

Answer 7

Pattern or beat

Question 8

Refers to words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sounds alike

Answer 8

Rhyme

Question 9

Refers to the pattern established by the arrangement of rhymez in a stanza or poem

Answer 9

Rhyme Scheme

Question 10

ABAB

Answer 10

Alternative rhyme or cross rhyme

Question 11

ABBA

Answer 11

Envelope rhyme

Question 12

Creates a comparison between two things by using the words “like” as “or”

Answer 12

Simile

Question 13

Creates a comparison by stating that one thing is another or does the actions of another

Answer 13

Metaphor

Question 14

Attributing human charactersistics to an inanimate object

Answer 14

Personification

Question 15

When a simple or ordinary object,events,animals or person represents deeper meaning

Answer 15

Symbolism

Question 16

Are the ideas or feelings evoked by a word

Answer 16

Connotations

Question 17

A statement which seems contradictory but may reveal an unexpected truth

Answer 17

Paradox

Question 18

A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other

Answer 18

Oxymoron

Question 19

An understatement, used to lessen the effect of a statement

Answer 19

Euphemism

Question 20

A group of words established by usage

Answer 20

Idiom

Question 21

A person, place or things is referred to by something closely associated with it

Answer 21

Metonymy

Question 22

A brief reference to a person

Answer 22

Allusion

Question 23

Vantage point of the speaker

Answer 23

Point of view

Question 24

Tells it from his/her perspective
(uses “I”)

Answer 24

First person

Question 25

Unusual form of story telling that addresses the readers directly (uses "you")

Answer 25

Second person

Question 26

Tells about the other characters rhrough limited perceptions of ONE other person

Answer 26

Third person limited

Question 27

Is able to know and describe what all characters are thinking

Answer 27

Third person omniscient

Question 28

Is one single line of a poem arranged in a metrical pattern

Answer 28

Verses

Question 29

Is group of verses where lines are arranged into a unit

Answer 29

Stanza

Question 30

When lines or verses have incomplete syntax and meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next without punctuation

Answer 30

Enjambment

Question 31

Our sense of sight

Answer 31

Visual imagery

Question 32

Sense of sound

Answer 32

Auditory

Question 33

Sense of smell

Answer 33

Olfactory

Question 34

Sense of touch

Answer 34

Tactile

Question 35

Sense of taste

Answer 35

Gustatory

Question 36

Sense of movement

Answer 36

Kinesthetic