Poetry

Question 0

Ballad

Answer 0

A narrative song handed down in oral tradition. Story in poetic form.

Question 1

Archaic language

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Old fashioned and out of date language and expression.

Question 2

Ballad stanza

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One stanza or paragraph on a ballad

Question 3

Connotation

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Implied meaning behind a word.

Question 4

Couplet

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Two rhyming lines, usually at the end of sonnets.

Question 5

Denotation

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Literally meaning

Question 6

Iambic pentameter

Answer 6

U/U/U/U/U/

Question 7

Internal rhyme

Answer 7

A rhyme within a line

Question 8

Lyric

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A poem meant to be sung

Question 9

Metre

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The regular flow of stressed and unstressed syllables based on the way you say the line.

Question 10

Pastoral

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Country poems, having to deal with farms, the outside, and romance

Question 11

Rhyme

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Two words that end in the same way

Question 12

Rhyme scheme

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The regular pattern of rhymes and the end of lines.

Question 13

Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 13

Abab/cdcd/efefe/gg

Question 14

Rhythm

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A series of stressed and unstressed syllables in a group of words

Question 15

Stanza

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A poem paragraph, division of sections of poetry by spacing

Question 16

Allusion

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A reference to a familiar figure, place, or event from history, literarure, mythology, or the bible.

Question 17

Alliteration

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Repetition of initial sounds

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 19

Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds
Or
Consonant sounds before and after vowel (flip flop)

Question 20

Extended metaphor

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A comparison between two things continued throughout the entire work.

Question 21

Dramatic irony

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When the author shares information not know by characters

Question 22

Situational irony

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Set of circumstances that turn out differently that what is expected.

Question 23

Verbal irony

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Contrast that is evident between what is said and meant (sarcasm)

Question 24

Octave

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Eight like stanza. Octave + sestet -> Petrarchan sonnet

Question 25

Paradox

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A statement where there is an apparent contradiction that is true.

Question 26

Personification

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Giving human attributes to animals, things, or ideas.

Question 27

Sestet

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Six line stanza in poem

Question 28

Sonnet

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14 line poem following a strict rhythm and rhyme scheme.

Shakespearian -ABABCDCDEFEFGG, iambic

Question 29

Theme

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Unifying or dominant idea in a poem or story. Usually implied, and there may be more than one.

Question 30

Blank verse

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No rhyme, but has a meter

Question 31

Diction

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A style of speaking that results from a specific choice and arrangement of words

Question 32

Epic

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Extended narrative poem

Question 33

Free verse

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Void of rhyme and rhythm

Question 34

Image

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Details that allow reader to have impression of what is said

Question 35

Imagery

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Representation through language for a sense of experience

Question 36

Metaphor

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Comparison without like or as

Question 37

Ode

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A lyric poem of some length, serious in subject and dignified in style

Question 38

Onomatopoeia

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Boom

Question 39

Repetition

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Repeated use of key words, phrases, stanzas or sounds in a poem

Question 40

Simile

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Using like or as

Question 41

Tone

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The author’s attitude towards his subject or readers.