Poetic Terms

Question 0

using any element of language more than once

Answer 0

repetition

Question 1

poetry that tells a story

Answer 1

narrative poetry

Question 2

repetition of structure of sentence

or words

Answer 2

parallel structure

Question 3

repeated line or group of lines

Answer 3

refrain

Question 4

musical quality in language produced by repetition

Answer 4

rhythm

Question 5

the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break

Answer 5

enjambment

Question 6

choice of narrator; determines type and amount of information the writer can review

Answer 6

point if view

Question 7

musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker

Answer 7

lyric poetry

Question 8

“atmosphere;” feeling created in the reader by a literary work

Answer 8

mood

Question 9

writer’s attitude toward audience or subject

Answer 9

tone

Question 10

describes a person, place, or thing by appealing to one or more of the five senses

Answer 10

imagery

Question 11

poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter

Answer 11

free verse

Question 12

writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally

Answer 12

figurative language

Question 13

comparison of two unlike thins using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Answer 13

simile

Question 14

comparison of two unlike things NOT using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Answer 14

metaphor

Question 15

giving human characteristics to non-human objects

Answer 15

personification

Question 16

exaggeration for effect

Answer 16

hyperbole

Question 17

juxtaposes opposite ideas, heightens parallelism

Answer 17

antithesis

Question 18

addresses subject of poet

Answer 18

apostrophe

Question 19

object standing for a concept, idea or emotion

Answer 19

symbol

Question 20

reference to someone or something else

Answer 20

allusion

Question 21

symbolic baggage attached to a word, significant, rich in imagery

Answer 21

connotation

Question 22

actual dictionary definition

Answer 22

denotation

Question 23

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the word

Answer 23

alliteration

Question 24

repetition of vowel sounds within words

Answer 24

assonance

Question 25

repetition of a consonant sound within words

Answer 25

consonance

Question 26

use of words that imitate sounds

Answer 26

onomatopoeia

Question 27

division of lines in a poem

Answer 27

stanza

Question 28

2 lines

Answer 28

couplet

Question 29

4 lines

Answer 29

quatrain

Question 30

rhythmical pattern; the regular repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables

Answer 30

meter

Question 31

similarity or likeness if sound existing between two words

Answer 31

rhyme

Question 32

occurs at the end of two or more lines of verse

Answer 32

end rhyme

Question 33

occurs between two or more words in the same line of verse

Answer 33

internal rhyme

Question 34

pattern or sequence in which rhyme occurs

Answer 34

rhyme scheme

Question 35

a close, but not exact, rhyme

Answer 35

slant rhyme

Question 36

rhyme with words of similar spelling, but different sounds

Answer 36

eye rhyme