Literary Terms 1-18

Question 0

Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words

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Assonance

Question 1

Repetition of beginning sounds, usually consonants

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

A song like poem that tells a story

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Ballad

Question 3

Poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Answer 3

Blank verse

Question 4

A poem whose shape suggests the subject of the poem

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Concrete poem

Question 5

Similar to alliteration but the repetition of similar consonant sounds can be at the beginning or end of the word

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Consonance

Question 6

A successive pair of lines of poetry that are usually rhymed

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Couplet

Question 7

A poem that laments the death if a person or thing or one that is simply dad and thoughtful

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Elegy

Question 8

A long serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure

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Epic poem

Question 9

Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally

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Figurative language

Question 10

Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme

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Free verse

Question 11

A group of syllables forming the basic unit of verse meter

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Foot

Question 12

A Japanese poem composed of 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables

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Haiku

Question 13

A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis

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Hyperbole

Question 14

A metrical foot of 2 syllables one short and one long

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Iamb

Question 15

Language that appeals to one or more of the senses

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Imagery

Question 16

A light humorous nonsensical or bawdy verse of 5 anapestic lines with the rhyme scheme aabba. The 1st 2nd and 5th have 9 syllables and the 3rd and 4th lines have 6 syllables. The first line introduces a person and a place

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Limerick

Question 17

Live break

Answer 17

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