Poetry

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of beginning constant sounds

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Reference to mythological ,literary, historical person or thing

Question 3

Apostrophe

Answer 3

Personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if they are present or an inanimate object is animate

Question 4

Assonance

Answer 4

Repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words

Question 5

Conceit

Answer 5

Elaborate comparisons between unlikely objects

Question 6

Consonance

Answer 6

Repetition of a constant sound with a series of words to produce a harmonious effect

Question 7

Diction

Answer 7

Word choice

Question 8

Enjambment

Answer 8

Running on of one line of poetry into another

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

An exaggeration

Question 10

Imagery

Answer 10

Use of words to represent things actions or ideas

Question 11

Irony

Answer 11

Contrast between actual meaning and suggestion of another meaning

Question 12

Verbal irony

Answer 12

result of a statement saying one thing while meaning the opposite, usually to criticize

Question 13

Situational Irony

Answer 13

When a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect, often the twist is oddly inappropriate

Question 14

Dramatic Irony

Answer 14

when a character says or does something that has more or different meanings from what he thinks it means, though the audience and/or characters do understand the full ramifications of the speech or action

Question 15

Metaphor

Answer 15

a comparison between two things without the use of like or as. comparison between something that is concrete and something abstract

Question 16

Metonymy

Answer 16

the name for something closely related to it then takes on a larger meaning

Question 17

Onomatopoeia

Answer 17

the use of words in which the sounds seem to resemble the sounds they describe

Question 18

Oxymoron

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a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. this combination usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness

Question 19

Paradox

Answer 19

a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least make sense

Question 20

Persona

Answer 20

the “character” the writer assumes for the purpose of the work

Question 21

Personification

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a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics

Question 22

Pun

Answer 22

a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. They can have serious and humorous uses

Question 23

Sarcasm

Answer 23

a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it. Its purpose is to injure hurt or change

Question 24

Synecdoce

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A form of metaphor in which a part of something issued to signify the whole or the whole can represent a part

Question 25

Syntax

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the ordering of words into a particular pattern. If a poet shifts words from the usual word order you know you are dealing with an older style of poetry or a poet who wants to shift emphasis onto a particular word

Question 26

Tone

Answer 26

The attitude of the speaker. The voice doesn’t have to be the poets

Question 27

Understatement

Answer 27

The opposite of hyperbole. It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much than it really is

Question 28

Voice

Answer 28

the “sound” of the narrator’s voice