Midterm

Question 1

Personification

Answer 1

Giving humans qualities to an abstract idea

Question 2

Stanza

Answer 2

A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of poem

Question 3

Villanelle

Answer 3

A French verse form consisting of five-three line stanzas and a final quatrain

Question 4

Sonnet

Answer 4

A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

Question 5

Enjambment

Answer 5

When a phrase, a clause, or a sentence, in a line of poetry doesn’t finish at the break but spills over into the next line

Question 6

Alliteration

Answer 6

Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stresses able in a line of verse

Question 7

Caesura

Answer 7

A break in a conversation, a line of verse, or a song

Question 8

End-stopped

Answer 8

Opposite of enjambment, pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit

Question 9

Couplet

Answer 9

2 successive lines in a verse

Question 10

Iamb

Answer 10

Foot containing unaccented and short syllables followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem

Question 11

Apostrophe

Answer 11

Punctuation mark used in Contractions to replace missing letters

Question 12

Authenticity

Answer 12

Quality of being genuine or real

Question 13

Images

Answer 13

The way things or ideas seem in your mind or in art or literature

Question 14

No forced rhymes

Answer 14

Should not force rhymes because it could affect the poetry

Question 15

Useless beauty

Answer 15

The idea that a poem can exist just because it’s beautiful

Question 16

Narrative poetry

Answer 16

Tells a story

Question 17

Rule breaking

Answer 17

Breaks the rules of a poetic form to make a point or emphasize a part of the poem

Question 18

Haiku

Answer 18

Three line poem where the first line has five syllables, the second has seven, and the third has five

Question 19

Generalization

Answer 19

Taking something specific and applying it more broadly

Question 20

Specificity

Answer 20

Opposite of generalization, every detail is given