Poetry

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

For example, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

Question 2

Hyperbole

Answer 2

The truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect

For example, the hunger of this poem is legendary

Question 3

Idiom

Answer 3

Its meaning is different from the literal meaning of its words

For example, the phrase “raining cats and dogs” does not literally mean that cats and dogs are falling from the sky; the expression means it’s raining heavily

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

Makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common

For example, In “Ode to My Socks,” Pablo Neruda uses metaphors to compare his socks to multiple objects, “two long sharks of lapis blue”

Question 5

Personification

Answer 5

Human qualities are given to an object, animal, or idea

For example, in “Incident in a Rose Garden,” deaths personified as someone who wears black and grins

Question 6

Internal rhyme

Answer 6

Occurs within a single line of poetry

Question 7

Slant rhyme

Answer 7

End rhyme that is not exact but approximate (approximate rhyme)

For example, O haven’t they stopped for the doctor’s car, haven’t they reined their horses, their horses? Why, none of them wondered, dear

Question 8

End rhyme

Answer 8

Occurs at the ends of lines of poetry

For example, from what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with these who desire fire

Question 9

Exact rhyme

Answer 9

repetition of the same stressed vowel sound as well as any consonant sounds that follow the vowel

For example, while the stars that over sprinkle, all the heavens, seem to tinkle

Question 10

Rhythm

Answer 10

A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

For example, my heart is like a singing bird, whose nest a watered shoot; my heart is like an apple tre, who bougns are bent with thick set fruit

Question 11

Rhyme scheme

Answer 11

A pattern of end rhymes in a poem

For example, two roads diverged in a yellow wood (a) and sorry I could not travel both (b) and be one traveler, long I stood (a) and looked down one as far as I could (a)

Question 12

Iambic pentameter

Answer 12

A metrical pattern of five feet, or units, each of which is made up of two syllables, the first stressed and the second unstressed

For example, my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

Question 13

Repetition

Answer 13

A technique in which sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity

For example, back off from this poem, it has been drawn in yr feet, back off from this poem

Question 14

Pun

Answer 14

A joke that comes from a play on words

For example, in “Romeo and Juliet,” when Mercutio is fatally wounded, he says,”Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man,” with a pun on the word grave, meaning both “solemn” and “a tomb”

Question 15

Blank verse

Answer 15

Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter (has rhythm but no rhyme)

For example, but soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is tho sun!

Question 16

Free verse

Answer 16

Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme (no rhyme or rhythm)

Question 17

Onomatopoeia

Answer 17

The use of words whose sounds echo their meanings

For example, words such as buzz, whisper, gargle, and murmur

Question 18

Lyric poem

Answer 18

A short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings

Question 19

Epic

Answer 19

A long narrative poem on a serious subject, presented in an elevated or formal style

An example being “The Odyssey”

Question 20

Sonnet

Answer 20

A lyric poem of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic pentameter

Question 21

Ballad

Answer 21

A type of narrative poem that tells a story and was originally meant to be sung or recited

Question 22

Simile

Answer 22

Makes a comparison between two unlike things, using like or as

For example, his heart is as cold as ice

Question 23

Oxymoron

Answer 23

A special kind of concise paradox that brings together two contradictory terms

For example, in “Romeo and Juliet,” each of the phrases “brawling love,” “loving hate,” “bright smoke,” and “feather of lead” is an oxymoron

Question 24

Paradox

Answer 24

A seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that may nonetheless suggest an important truth

Question 25

Archetype

Answer 25

A pattern in literature that is found in a variety of words from different cultures throughout the ages

For example, the association of death and rebirth with winter and spring is an archetype common to many cultures