Poetic techniques

Question 1

What is alliteration?

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Alliteration is when two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or a sentence

Question 2

A literary technique where the same or similar vowel sound is repeated.

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Assonance

Question 3

When two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or a sentence

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Alliteration

Question 4

What is Assonance?

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Assonance is a literary technique where the same or similar vowel sound is repeated.

Question 5

A type of poetry that has a regular meter, but no rhyme scheme.

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Blank verse

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What is a Blank verse?

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Blank verse is a type of poetry that has a regular meter, but no rhyme scheme.

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What is an Enjambment?

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Enjambment is the continuation of a phrase or sentence from one line to the next without any punctuation

Question 8

The continuation of a phrase or sentence from one line to the next without any punctuation

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Enjambment

Question 9

What is a Free Verse?

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Free verse is a poetic style that does not feature a set meter or rhyme scheme.

Question 10

A poetic style that does not feature a set meter or rhyme scheme.

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Free verse

Question 11

What is a Hyperbole?

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Hyperbole is an extravagant exaggeration used to emphasize a point.

Question 12

is a rhythmic pattern that consists of ten syllables per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. The pattern that emerges sounds like this: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM.

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Iambic pentameter

Question 13

is the use of words to create images, impressions or mood for the reader.

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Imagery

Question 14

is an extravagant exaggeration used to emphasize a point.

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Hyperbole

Question 15

What is an Iambic Pentameter?

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Iambic pentameter is a rhythmic pattern that consists of ten syllables per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. The pattern that emerges sounds like this: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM.

Question 16

What is an imagery?

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Imagery is the use of words to create images, impressions or mood for the reader.

Question 17

What are the five types of imagery?

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Visual
Auditory
Olfactory
Gustatory
Tactile

Question 18

Appeals to the sense of sight, it describes what is being seen.

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Visual imagery

Question 19

What is visual imagery?

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Visual imagery appeals to the sense of sight, it describes what is being seen.

Question 20

What is auditory imagery?

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Auditory imagery describes specific sounds that are happening within the story.

Question 21

Describes specific sounds that are happening within the story.

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Auditory imagery

Question 22

Describes a particular scent.

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Olfactory imagery

Question 23

What is olfactory imagery?

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Olfactory imagery describes a particular scent.

Question 24

What is gustatory imagery?

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Gustatory imagery describes the sense of taste.

Question 25

What is tactile imagery?

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Tactile imagery appeals to the sense of touch.

Question 26

Appeals to the sense of touch.

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Tactile imagery

Question 27

Describes the sense of taste.

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Gustatory imagery

Question 28

What is irony?

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Irony is events or words are the opposite of what is expected.

Question 29

What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that implicitly compares two unrelated things, typically by stating that one thing is another.

Question 30

A figure of speech that implicitly compares two unrelated things, typically by stating that one thing is another.

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Metaphor

Question 31

What is objectification?

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When a person is treated like an object - the opposite of personification.

Question 32

Events or words are the opposite of what is expected.

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Irony

Question 33

What is Onomatopoeia?

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Onomatopoeia is the naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds.

Question 34

The naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds.

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Onomatopoeia

Question 35

A figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings

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An oxymoron

Question 36

What is Oxymoron?

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An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings

Question 37

What is Personification?

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Personification is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects and animals, such as emotions and behaviors

Question 38

What is a Rhetorical Question?

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A rhetorical question is asked in order to make a statement and does not expect an answer.

Question 39

Is asked in order to make a statement and does not expect an answer.

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A rhetorical question

Question 40

When a person is treated like an object - the opposite of personification.

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Objectification

Question 41

What is Rhyme?

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A rhyme is the repetition of sounds between two words, usually the sounds after the final stressed syllable of each word

Question 42

Is the repetition of sounds between two words, usually the sounds after the final stressed syllable of each word

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A rhyme

Question 43

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects and animals, such as emotions and behaviors

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Personification

Question 44

What is Rhythm?

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Rhythm is the beat and pace of a poem

Question 45

What is Sibilance?

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Sibilance is the repetition of “s” sounds in a series of neighboring words

Question 46

Is the repetition of “s” sounds in a series of neighboring words

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Sibilance

Question 47

What is Simile?

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Simile is to describe one object or being to be like or as something else.

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Is to describe one object or being to be like or as something else.

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Simile

Question 49

What is Stanza?

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A stanza is a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme

Question 50

Is a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme

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Stanza

Question 51

What is Symbolism?

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Symbolism is the idea that things represent other things

Question 52

Is the idea that things represent other things

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Symbolism

Question 53

What is Synecdoche?

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Synecdoche is a specific part of something is used to refer to the whole thing.

Question 54

Is a specific part of something is used to refer to the whole thing.

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Synecdoche

Question 55

What is tempo?

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Rhythm refers to the overall tempo, or pace, at which the poem unfolds, while meter refers to the measured beat established by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Question 56

Refers to the overall pace, at which the poem unfolds, while meter refers to the measured beat established by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Tempo

Question 57

Is the beat and pace of a poem

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Rhythm

Question 58

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Question 59

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Question 60

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Question 61

What is anaphora?

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repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses

Question 62

repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses

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Anaphora