Poetry

Question 1

A long poem with the personality of the poet excluded

Answer 1

Dramatic poem

Question 2

A poem in which the poet reveals what he or she thinks or a poem meant to be sung

Answer 2

Lyric

Question 3

A short poem of regret

Answer 3

Elegy

Question 4

Narrative written in stanza form-usually deals with folklore

Answer 4

Ballad

Question 5

A metrical form in which each foot consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one

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Anapestic

Question 6

Written in iambic pentameter without rhyme

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Free verse

Question 7

Standard or traditional way of saying things in literary works

Answer 7

Conventions

Question 8

Metrical pause in which each foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by a two unstressed ones

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Dactylic

Question 9

Line of poetry with six feet

Answer 9

Hexameter

Question 10

A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

Answer 10

Iambic

Question 11

A form in which the basic foot is an iamb and most lines consist of five iambs ( the most common meter in English)

Answer 11

Iambic pentameter

Question 12

Sensory detail

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Imagery

Question 13

Line of poetry with 8 feet

Answer 13

Octameter

Question 14

Figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements( jumbo shrimp)

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Oxymoron

Question 15

A patterned form of expression of ideas in concentrated, imaginative, and rhythmical forms

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Poetry

Question 16

Ordinary form of language without rhythm or meter

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Prose

Question 17

The subject of a poem or the central or main insight of the poem

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Theme

Question 18

A type or sub genre of poetry in which a speaker addresses a silent auditor in a specific situation or setting that is revealed entirely through the speakers words

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Dramatic monologue

Question 19

Involves the what and why of a poem, as well as the where and when(setting)

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Situation

Question 20

Seize the day

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Carpe diem

Question 21

Where and when of a poem

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Setting

Question 22

Poems with a morning setting

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Aubade

Question 23

Poem that describes the simple life of country folk

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Pastoral

Question 24

Line of poetry with 5 feet

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Pentameter

Question 25

A fixed verse form consisting of 14 lines

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Sonnet

Question 26

Sonnet that divides the poem into one section of eight lines (octave) and a second section or 6 line (sestet) following a pattern of abbacddc

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Petrarchan sonnet or Italian sonnet

Question 27

Form that divides the poem into 3 units of 4 lines. Standard form is abab cdcd efef gig

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Shakespearean sonnet or English sonnet

Question 28

Metrical foot consisting of a pair of stressed sylabbles( dead set)

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Spondee

Question 29

Line of poetry with four feet

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Tetrameter

Question 30

Metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by a unstressed one

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Trochaic

Question 31

A poem that celebrates the achievements of a mighty hero

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Epic

Question 32

Originally any poem carved in stone but also a short witty verse

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Epigram

Question 33

How we measure the unit

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Foot

Question 34

Kind of rhythm

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Meyer

Question 35

The system we use in determining foot, meter, etc.

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Scansion

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Any way of saying something other than the normal way

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Figurative language

Question 37

Suggests mental images through language of sense experience

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Imagery

Question 38

Comparison is implied

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Metaphors

Question 39

Comparison using like or as

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Simile

Question 40

Giving attributes of a human being to an object or animal

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Personification

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Something that means more than what it is

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Symbols

Question 42

Aimed at false emotion rather than fresh expression experience

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Sentimentality

Question 43

Dictionary meaning

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Denotation

Question 44

What the word suggests

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Connotation

Question 45

Addressing someone absent or dead or nonhuman and expecting it or them to reply

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Apostrophe

Question 46

Use of words to mimic their meaning in sounds

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Onomatopoeia

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Vowels are similar

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Assonance

Question 48

Consonants are similar

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Consonance

Question 49

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Alliteration

Question 50

Use of something closely related for thing actually meant

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Metonymy

Question 51

Narrative or description that has a second meaning behind the surface or extended metaphors-it usually has a more fixed meaning

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Allegory

Question 52

An apparent contradiction that is somehow true

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Paradox

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An exaggeration

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Overstatement or hyberbole

Question 54

Saying less than what one means

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Understatement

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Bitter or cutting speech to ridicule

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Sarcasm

Question 56

More formal-implying ridicule on a literary level

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Satire

Question 57

What the speaker says and what the poem means

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Dramatic irony

Question 58

Discrepancy between actual circumstance and what would seem appropriate

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Irony of situation

Question 59

Reference to something in history of literature

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Allusion

Question 60

Preaches-a teacher

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Didactic poetry

Question 61

Stanza of four lines

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Quatrain

Question 62

Six line stanza

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Sestet

Question 63

Two successful lines linked by rhyme

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Couplet

Question 64

Eight lines

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Octave

Question 65

Pause within a poetic line

Answer 65

Metrical pause

Question 66

Poets word choice

Answer 66

Diction

Question 67

Incongruity between what we expect and what actually occurs

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Dramatic irony

Question 68

The pattern of end rhymes in a poem

Answer 68

Rhyme scheme

Question 69

The pattern of stressed an unstressed sylabbles in a line of poetry

Answer 69

Poetic rhythm