english - vocab

Question 1

stanza

Answer 1

a division of a poem consisting of lines

Question 2

figure of speech

Answer 2

a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense

Question 3

imagery

Answer 3

visually descriptive language that illicits a picture in the reader’s mind

Question 4

metaphor

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making a non-literal comparison between two things

Question 5

extended metaphor

Answer 5

a metaphor that extends over the course of the text

Question 6

simile

Answer 6

making a comparison between two things in a non-literal sense using like or as

Question 7

personification

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attributing human characteristics to inanimate object

Question 8

hyperbole

Answer 8

exaggerating something to emphaise it

Question 9

irony

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when a character does or says something different from expected

Question 10

sarcasm

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the expression of saying something that you don’t fully mean

Question 11

litotes

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an understatement that implies a positive statement by using double negatives for modesty or criticism

Question 12

anti-thesis

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a contrast between two things

Question 13

oxymoron

Answer 13

Language device where two opposite words or meanings are
used side by side

Question 14

anaphora

Answer 14

repetition of words or a phrase used in the beginning of a line

Question 15

syntax

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arrangement of words in sentences

Question 16

caesura

Answer 16

a pause in a line of poetry that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech

Question 17

sonnet

Answer 17

a poem with 14 lines using iambic pentameter

Question 18

volta

Answer 18

the turn of thought or argument

Question 19

rhythm

Answer 19

patterns of stresses, unstressed syllables and pauses in language

Question 20

metre

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a regularly repeating rhythm

Question 21

foot/feet

Answer 21

basic unit of syllabic and quantitive meter

Question 22

trochee

Answer 22

converts iambic (stressed then unstressed)

Question 23

spondee

Answer 23

2 stressed

Question 24

iamb

Answer 24

unstressed then stressed

Question 25

anapest

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2 unstressed and 1 stressed

Question 26

dactyl

Answer 26

one stressed and two unstressed

Question 27

blank verse

Answer 27

unrhymed text (iambic pentameter)

Question 28

rhyme

Answer 28

a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words

Question 29

internal rhyme

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a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.

Question 30

masculine rhyme

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a rhyme between final stressed syllables (flow/blow, confess/undress)

Question 31

feminine rhyme

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a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables (double rhyme)

Question 32

ear rhyme

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a rhyme that doesn't look like it rhymes but sounds like it does

Question 33

half rhyme

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two words that have only their final consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sounds in common

Question 34

ailteration

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The repeating of the initial letter

Question 35

assonance

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The repeating of vowel sounds

Question 36

consonance

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repetition of consonant sounds

Question 37

onomatopeia

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creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

Question 38

chiasmus

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a crossed rhetorical parallel

Question 39

connotation

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assciociated or secondary meaning of a word or expression

Question 40

elegy

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denotes a reflective poem that laments the loss of something or someone

Question 41

euphemism

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inoffensive word or phrase that replaces a harsh, unpleasant, or hurtful one

Question 42

metonymy

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figure of speech in which something is represented by another thing that is commonly associated with it

Question 43

prosody

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the study of versification (i.e. form, meter rhyme, rhythm, stanza, etc)

Question 44

refrain

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The repeating of a single line in a poem, often the last line of a stanza.

Question 45

scansion

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the analysis of rhyme and meter of a poem

Question 46

synecdoche

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A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.

Question 47

topos

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traditional theme or motif

Question 48

valediction

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an act or utterance of farewell