Poetry

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable.

Question 2

Simile

Answer 2

a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” Compare metaphor.

Question 3

Personification

Answer 3

Lending non making sense stuff to something

Example-The wind howls

Question 4

Alliteration

Answer 4

Repetition of the first letter. Tongue twister

Question 5

Hyperbole

Answer 5

An exaggeration. You took five years to get here! I’m so hungry I could eat a horse

Question 6

Imagery

Answer 6

Words that appeal to the senses. The hillside smelt like freshly cut grass.

Question 7

Onamatopoeia

Answer 7

Sound words. Example-cuckoo, bop, boom, bang

Question 8

Oxymoron

Answer 8

Contrary terms (pretty, ugly, beautiful, sound of silence, jumbo shrimp)

Question 9

Assonance

Answer 9

Rep of vowel sound, in same, or constructive lines of poetry. “Word, I’m the nerd and observing the bubs and perturbing, disturbing with verbiage you never heard

Question 10

Meter

Answer 10

Syllable count

Sonnet- 14 syllables, 10 Syl, rhyme

Question 11

Couplet

Answer 11

2 consecutive rhyme lines

Question 12

Ballad

Answer 12

Story poem, has a refrain, lyric short emotional poem

Question 13

Lyric

Answer 13

Short, emotional poem

Question 14

Rhyme scheme

Answer 14

Labelling letters to rhymes

Question 15

Quotation

Answer 15

Is Repetition of one expression