Poetry

Question 1

Rising Meter

Answer 1

A metrical foot that moves from unstressed to stressed sounds, such as iambic foot and anapestic foot.

Question 2

Falling Meter

Answer 2

A metrical foot that moves from stressed to unstressed such as trochaic foot and dactylic foot.

Question 3

Iambic Pentameter

Answer 3

A metrical pattern in poetry that consists of five iambic feet per line (consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable).

Question 4

Spondee

Answer 4

A foot consisting of two stressed syllables (“dead set”). It is used mainly for variety or emphasis.

Question 5

Foot

Answer 5

The metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured.

Question 6

Trochaic

Answer 6

a type of verse that consists of or features trochees.

Question 7

Anopestic

Answer 7

a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable.

Question 8

Consonance

Answer 8

A common type of near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds: worth, breath.

Question 9

Euphony

Answer 9

Language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear.

Question 10

Cacophony

Answer 10

Language that is difficult to pronounce.

Question 11

Alliteration

Answer 11

The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words.

Question 12

Eye Rhyme

Answer 12

Words that look alike but do not actually rhyme.

Question 13

Internal Rhyme

Answer 13

Places at least one of the rhymed words within the line.

Question 14

Masculine Rhyme

Answer 14

Describes the rhyming words of more single-syllable words, such as grade or shade.

Question 15

Feminine Rhyme

Answer 15

Consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables. E.g. butter, clutter.

Question 16

Difference between paradox and oxymoron.

Answer 16

a paradox is the opposition of ideas or themes, an oxymoron is a contradiction merely between words.

Question 17

Figure of Speech

Answer 17

Say in terms of something else

Question 18

Apostrophe

Answer 18

An address to who is absent and can’t hear the speaker orto something nonhuman (Shakespear sonnet)

Question 19

Synecdoche

Answer 19

A metaphor in which a part of something is used to signify the whole. E.g. ten sails

Question 20

Couplet

Answer 20

Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter.

Question 21

Dialect

Answer 21

a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group (think of people from the South).

Question 22

Syntax

Answer 22

The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.