Elements of Poetry

Question 1

effect caused on the reader or expressed in the poem: (examples: joy, sorrow, grief…)

Answer 1

Mood

Question 1

emotions, thoughts, feelings, and experiences recollected in writing:

Answer 1

Poetry

Question 2

writers’ attitude toward his subject, audience, or himself:

Answer 2

Tone

Question 3

rhythm arranged to a regular uniform pattern or line of poetry:

Answer 3

Verse

Question 4

Stanza = a group of lines that form a unit. We have couplet, …

Answer 4

tercet, quatrain, sestet, septet, octave, and Spenserian.

Question 5

one accented syllable and one or more unaccented syllables

Answer 5

Foot

Question 6

u / u /

Answer 6

iambic

Question 7

/ u / u

Answer 7

trochee

Question 8

/ /

Answer 8

spondee

Question 9

/ u u / u u

Answer 9

dactyl

Question 10

u u / u u /

Answer 10

anapest

Question 11

repetition of sounds, end of two or more lines

Answer 11

rhyme

Question 12

Within a line.
- repetition of identical vowel sounds (hope, scope)
- identical vowel sounds with varying stress (be/silly)
- similar but not identical (heel/still - eat/it)
- different sounds but appear identical to the eye (sentry/comply)
- repetition of the same sounds (light/light)

Answer 12

Internal rhyme : full, light, slant, eye, identical

Question 13

number of feet in a line (name them)

Answer 13

Meter:
Monometer
Dimeter
Trimeter
Tetrameter
Pentameter
Hexameter
Heptameter
Octameter

Question 14

repetition of initial consonant sounds in a line, stanza, or phrase of poetry

Answer 14

Alliteration

Question 15

repetition of vowel sound

Answer 15

Assonance

Question 16

same final consonant sounds (near/year)

Answer 16

Consonance

Question 17

an implied comparison between 2 things of a different quality

Answer 17

Metaphor

Question 18

a stated comparison between 2 things using the words like, as, than, similar to, resembles, seems.

Answer 18

Simile

Question 19

an extended comparison between 2 dissimilar things

Answer 19

Analogy

Question 20

reference taken from outside the poem

Answer 20

Allusion

Question 21

something representing something else

Answer 21

Symbol

Question 22

has a second meaning beneath the surface

Answer 22

Allegory

Question 23

contradictions which has some truth

Answer 23

Paradox

Question 24

saying the opposite of what one means

Answer 24

Irony

Question 25

bitter or cutting speech intended to wound the feelings

Answer 25

Sarcasm

Question 26

to ridicule human vice

Answer 26

Satire

Question 27

representation through language of sense

Answer 27

Imagery

Question 28

a term that combines two contradictory terms (escaped / prisoner)

Answer 28

Oxymoron

Question 29

human traits to animals or inanimate objects.

Answer 29

Personification

Question 30

exaggeration of a fact for serious or comic effect. (I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse)

Answer 30

Hyperbole

Question 31

addressing someone absent or dead; or something nonhuman as if that person was alive or could reply to what is being said.

Answer 31

Apostrophe

Question 31

exaggeration. (I haven’t seen you in a million years!)

Answer 31

Overstatement

Question 32

saying less that one means.

Answer 32

Understatement

Question 33

written sound effect

Answer 33

Onomatopoeia

Question 33

basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word

Answer 33

Denotation

Question 34

a word in its emotional content

Answer 34

Conotation