poetic techniques

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

A short moral story

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

The repetition of similar vowels in successive vowels

Question 4

Consonance

Answer 4

The property of sounding harmonious

Question 5

Enjambment

Answer 5

Continuation from one line of verse into the next line

Question 6

Imagery

Answer 6

The ability to form mental pictures of things or events

Question 7

Metaphor

Answer 7

A figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity

Question 8

Rhyme

Answer 8

Correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines

Question 9

Mood

Answer 9

A characteristic state of feeling

Question 10

Tone

Answer 10

The distinctive property of a complex sound

Question 11

Couplet

Answer 11

A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse

Question 12

Foreshadowing

Answer 12

The act of providing vague advance indications

Question 13

Free verse

Answer 13

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

Question 14

Hyperbole

Answer 14

Extravagant exaggeration

Question 15

Irony

Answer 15

Incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs

Question 16

Literal

Answer 16

Limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text

Question 17

Figurative

Answer 17

Not literal

Question 18

Metonymy

Answer 18

Substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing

Question 19

Apostrophe

Answer 19

A mark used to indicate the omission of one or more letters

Question 20

Narrator

Answer 20

Someone who tells a story

Question 21

Speaker

Answer 21

Someone who expresses in language

Question 22

Onomatopeia

Answer 22

Using words that imitate the sound they denote

Question 23

Plot

Answer 23

A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation

Question 24

A point of view

Answer 24

A mental position from which things are perceived

Question 25

Protagonist

Answer 25

The principal character in a work of fiction

Question 26

Antagonist

Answer 26

Someone who offers opposition

Question 27

Stanza

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Rhythm

Answer 28

An interval during which a recurring sequence occurs

Question 29

Satire

Answer 29

Witty language used to convey insults or scorn

Question 30

Setting

Answer 30

The physical position of something

Question 31

Simile

Answer 31

A figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things

Question 32

Synecdoche

Answer 32

Using part of something to refer to the whole thing

Question 33

Symbol

Answer 33

Something visible that represents something invisible

Question 34

Theme

Answer 34

The subject matter of a conversation or discussion

Question 35

Allusion

Answer 35

Passing reference or indirect mention

Question 36

Personification

Answer 36

Attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas

Question 37

Repetition

Answer 37

The act of doing or performing again

Question 38

Oxymoron

Answer 38

Conjoining contradictory terms

Question 39

Syllable

Answer 39

A unit of spoken language larger than an phoneme

Question 40

Connotation

Answer 40

An idea that is implied or suggested

Question 41

Denotation

Answer 41

The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression

Question 42

Pun

Answer 42

A humorous play on words

Question 43

Paradox

Answer 43

A statement that contradicts itself