English Terms

Question 1

Theme

Answer 1

the governing idea or ideas of a poem conveyed through the details of the poem

Question 2

Lyric Poem

Answer 2

expresses an individual speaker’s feelings or thoughts. Lyric poems are usually short

Question 3

Rhyme

Answer 3

repetition of identical or similar sounds. At the end of a line of poetry, we call it end-rhyme

Question 4

Pastoral

Answer 4

pertaining to and/or idealizing country or rural life (describing)

Question 5

Allusion

Answer 5

in literature, a reference in one work/text to another text/ work or author

Question 6

Alliteration

Answer 6

group of words with the same initial consonant sound Ex. From field to field

Question 7

Metaphor

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a comparison between two things that doesn’t use “like” or “as” ex. Baby you’re a firework

Question 8

Simile

Answer 8

an explicit comparison using “like” or “as” ex. My love is like a red rose

Question 9

Conceit

Answer 9

An unusually elaborate or extended comparison (metaphor or simile)

Question 10

Slant Rhyme

Answer 10

imperfect or partial rhyme in which the final consonant sounds match but the vowel sounds do not

Question 11

Apostrophe

Answer 11

occurs when a writer or speaker directly addresses an object or a dead or absent person as if they were present and able to listen

Question 12

Prose Poem

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a text that uses margins and paragraphs instead of line breaks but that maintains the attention to imagery, figurative language, and rich detail of a poem

Question 13

free verse

Answer 13

poetry that does not rhyme and has irregularity of meter and line length

Question 14

imagism

Answer 14

representing emotions or impressions through the use of concentrated images

Question 15

tone

Answer 15

the speakers attitude - imagining the poem has a voice. a persona adopted by the poet.

Question 16

Bathos

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an anticlimactic affect brought about by a writers descent from an elevated subject to the ordinary or trivial

Question 17

Blank verse

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poetry that lacks rhymes but does follow a specific meter - a meter that is almost always iambic pentameter

Question 18

Confessional poetry

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emphasized personal unflattering, intimate, uncomfortable details of personal life. These poems are often about feelings or actions that have been considered taboo, such as mental illness, desperation, and anger

Question 19

Dramatic monologue

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a lyric poem that takes the form of utterance by a single person addressing a silent listener

Question 20

Imagery

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the creation in words of objects perceived by the senses. These include not only “pictures” but also tastes, smells, sounds, touches - sensory descriptions

Question 21

Mock heroic

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applying elevated diction and vocabulary of epic poetry to low or ridiculous subjects

Question 22

Ode

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employs a pattern of repeated rhyme across stanzas; deals with personal, reflective, or literary themes in a serious manner

Question 23

Personification

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authors referring to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals as if they were human