Poetic Terminology

Question 1

masculine rhyme

Answer 1

1 syllable

Question 2

feminine rhyme

Answer 2

2 syllables, 2nd rhymes

Question 3

triple rhyme

Answer 3

3 syllables

Question 4

slant rhyme

Answer 4

hope/cup

Question 5

identical rhyme

Answer 5

same word same sound

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eye rhyme

Answer 6

looks like it should

Question 7

internal rhyme

Answer 7

in middle of line, sometimes middle + end or across 2 middles

Question 8

mosaic rhyme

Answer 8

1 word w/ 2 or 2 words w/ 2

Question 9

apocopated rhyme

Answer 9

masculine with feminine

Question 10

end rhyme

Answer 10

most common, rhymes at end of lines

Question 11

tautology

Answer 11

unreasonable repetition

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syntax

Answer 12

arrangement of grammar and word order

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synecdoche

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big idea used to express smaller one (or vice versa) eg ‘England lost’ or ‘new wheels’

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refrain

Answer 14

repetition of a line at intervals

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neologism

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creation of a new word

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portmanteau

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joining 2 words together to make a new one

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meiosis

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opposite of hyperbole

Question 18

malapropism

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misuse of a word in mistake of one resembling it

Question 19

epigram

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concise and witty saying usually with a device

Question 20

end-stop

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metrical line ending in a piece of punctuation
opposite to enjambment

Question 21

euphonious

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pleasant-sounding
opposite to cacophonous

Question 22

double entendre

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expression w/ 2 meanings
1 usually coarse

Question 23

chiasmus

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repetition of elements in reverse order
ABBA
beauty is truth, truth beauty

Question 24

compound

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word made from 2 and hyphenated

Question 25

caesura

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deliberate break
usually with punctuation

Question 25

caesura

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deliberate break
usually with punctuation

Question 26

assonance

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vowel sound repeating in close proximity
consonance = same thing with consonants

Question 27

dramatic monologue

Answer 27

single persona
implied audience

Question 28

blank verse

Answer 28

unrhymed but metrical
usually iambic pentameter

Question 29

rhyme royal

Answer 29

7 lines
iambic pentameter
ABABBCC

Question 30

ballad

Answer 30

dramatic + emotional
4 line stanzas
ABAB / ABCB
usually iambic

Question 31

sonnet

Answer 31

14 lines
iambic pentameter
ABBAABBA CDECDE (P)
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (S)
usually about love
usually a volta

Question 32

volta

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a turn in thought or argument (usually ‘but’ ‘yet’)

Question 33

elegy

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death/loss
usually hopeful end note

Question 34

ode

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praising something/someone

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limerick

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comical + often bawdy
AABBA

Question 36

villanelle

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19 lines
ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA
1 - refrain 6, 12, 18
3 - refrain 3, 9, 15, 19

Question 37

dactylic

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/–/–/–/–

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iambic

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-/-/-/-/-/-

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anapaestic

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–/–/–/–/

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trochaic

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/-/-/-/-

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abstract noun

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idea or quality rather than something touchable

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analogy

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comparison between one thing + another to explain one thing

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anacoluthon

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often sentences interrupted midway
discontinuity leading to logical incoherence

Question 44

anaphora

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lines beginning w/ same word/phrase

Question 45

allegory

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extended metaphor veiling underlying meaning
usually moral or political

Question 46

1 line

Answer 46

monostitch

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2 line

Answer 47

couplet

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3 line

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tercet

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4 line

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quatrain

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5 line

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quintain

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6 line

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sestet

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7 line

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septet

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8 line

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octet

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9 line

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nonet

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10 line

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dizain

Question 56

Epistrophe

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repetition of word or phrase at the end of lines