Intro To Poetry Test

Question 1

pertains to sounds, noises, music, or the sense of hearing. (This kind of imagery may come in the form of onomatopoeia).

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Auditory imagery

Question 2

pertains to odors, scents, or the sense of smell.

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Olfactory imagery

Question 3

pertains to flavors or the sense of taste.

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Gustatory imagery

Question 4

relates to the sense of touch. It is one of the seven types of sensory images used to create description in writing

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Tactile imagery

Question 5

• time and place in which the story takes place

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Setting

Question 6

• a literary device where two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning sound. The words can be adjacent or can be separated by one or more words.

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Alliteration

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• a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things. Unlike a metaphor, it draws resemblance with the help of the words “like” or “as.” Therefore, it is a direct comparison

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Simile

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: The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as

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Metaphor

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: a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.

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Allusion

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: a statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow

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Paradox

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: a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.

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Juxtaposition

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: is a literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. … The final part shows how others in the story respond to the character’s personality.

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Characterization (indirect and direct)

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: can be defined as style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.

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Diction

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: derived from a Greek word meaning “over-casting,” is a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. It is a device that we employ in our day-to-day speech.

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Hyperbole

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: the angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation

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Point of View

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: is a figure of speech in which a thing – an idea or an animal – is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings.

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Personification

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: a literary device that can be defined as a technique in which a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions or entire behavior to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena or objects.

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Anthropomorphization

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: refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. Words carry cultural and emotional associations or meanings in addition to their literal meanings or denotations.

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Connotation

Question 19

: in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience

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Tone

Question 20

: a literary device is when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party. This third party may be an individual, either present or absent in the scene. It can also be an inanimate object, like a dagger, or an abstract concept, such as death or the sun.

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Apostrophe

Question 21

: defined as a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting. … In addition to the sound they represent, many onomatopoeic words have developed meanings of their own.

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Onomatopoeia

Question 22

: It means a small or little song or lyric. In poetry, it has 14 fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme and a “volta” or a specific turn

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sonnets

Question 23

: is a fixed form poem consisting of five tercets and a quatrain and also follows a specific rhyme scheme using only two different sounds. A tercet is a stanza with only three lines, and a quatrain is a stanza with four lines.

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villanelles

Question 24

: a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased. It typically laments or mourns the death of the individual.

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elegies

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: 1 a :a literary work (such as a poem or play) dealing with shepherds or rural life in a usually artificial manner and typically drawing a contrast between the innocence and serenity of the simple life and the misery and corruption of city and especially court life

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pastoral poetry

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: A kind of poem devoted to the praise of a person, animal, or thing. An ode is usually written in an elevated style and often expresses deep feeling

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Ode

Question 27

: consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd

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Petrarchan sonnet

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: The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab cdcd efef. The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg. This sonnet structure is commonly called the English sonnet

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Shakespearean sonnet

Question 29

Shift in focus

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Volta