Poetry

Question 1

what is elegy

Answer 1

someone dies

Question 2

what is ode

Answer 2

praise to something

Question 3

what is a long story told in verse form

Answer 3

narrative

Question 4

what is a brief personal poem that is musical and uses sound devices

Answer 4

lyric

Question 5

what is a type of poem that meant to be sung and tells a story

Answer 5

ballad

Question 6

what is a simile

Answer 6

2 dissimilar things that are compared using like or as

Question 7

what is a metaphor

Answer 7

2 dissimilar things that are compared without using words such as like or as

Question 8

what are the 3 types of metaphor

Answer 8

direct
implied
extended

Question 9

what is personification

Answer 9

giving human qualities to something non human or inanimate

Question 10

what is apostrophe

Answer 10

adressing something non human as if it were human

Question 11

what is a reference to a person or thing from previous literature? what is one example ?

Answer 11

literary allusion

shakespeare, Bible, mythology

Question 12

what is hyperbole

Answer 12

using exaggeration for emphasis, not to be taken literally

Question 13

what is irony

Answer 13

meaning the opposite of what is said

Question 14

what is contrasting ideas, balancing or contrasting one thing against another for effect (knowledge is power and power is knowledge)

Answer 14

antithesis

Question 15

what is using a part of something to represent the whole thing
(all hands on deck)

Answer 15

synecdoche

Question 16

what is a substitution of one word for another closely related word

Answer 16

metonymy

Question 17

what is an apparent contradiction that proves to be true; a situation that seems like it doesnt make sense but when you actually think about it, it does make sense
poor little rich girl, human race

Answer 17

paradox

Question 18

what is a symbol

Answer 18

something concrete used to represent something that cant be touched

tree representing life

Question 19

what is alliteration

Answer 19

repetition of consonant sound (has to be first letter or consonant) in 2 or more words in a line of a verse

Question 20

consonance

Answer 20

repetition of consonant sounds that arent at the beginning of words

Question 21

assonance

Answer 21

the repetition of vowel sounds in 2 or more words with different consonant sounds

Question 22

onomatopoeia

Answer 22

use of words that imitate the sounds they define

Question 23

what are the 3 reasons to use repetition

Answer 23

sound
emphasis
memorization

Question 24

what is the repetition of one or more phrases at the end of a stanza

Answer 24

refrain

Question 25

what is a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a unit

Answer 25

stanza

Question 26

what are the different types of rhyme

Answer 26

perfect, imperfect (slant), eye, end, internal

Question 27

what is an imperfect rhyme

Answer 27

words that sound similar but are not exactly the same

Question 28

what is an eye rhyme

Answer 28

rhyme that depends on spelling rather than sound, look like they should rhyme but dont

Question 29

what is an end rhyme

Answer 29

end of line in 2 or more lines

Question 30

internal rhyme

Answer 30

rhyme that occurs within one line of poetry

Question 31

what is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry called

Answer 31

rhythm

Question 32

what is a pattern of repeating stressed and unstressed syllables called

Answer 32

meter

Question 33

what is a foot??

Answer 33

unit of meter

Question 34

what are the 6 types of feet

Answer 34

``` iambic trochaic spondaic pyrric anapestic dactylic ```

Question 35

what does iambic foot contain

Answer 35

unstressed/stressed

Question 36

what does trochaic foot contain

Answer 36

stressed/unstressed

Question 37

what does spondaic foot contain

Answer 37

stressed/stressed

Question 38

what does pyrric foot contain

Answer 38

unstressed/unstressed

Question 39

what does anapestic foot contain

Answer 39

unstressed/unstressed/stressed

Question 40

what does dactylic foot contain

Answer 40

stressed/unstressed/unstressed

Question 41

what is poetry

Answer 41

a rhythmic and patterned form of expressive ideas and words which have a certain and imaginative theme