Poetry

Question 1

What is a volta?

Answer 1

When the atmosphere changes.

Question 2

What is sibilance

Answer 2

When something is difficult to say

Usually with p or s

Question 3

What is hyperbole?

Answer 3

Obvious and intential exaggeration.

Question 4

What are monosyllable

Answer 4

A word of one syllable

Question 5

What is colloquial language?

Answer 5

Casual coversation

Question 6

What is Caesura?

Answer 6

It cuts the sentence in the middle

pause added into a line of poetry,

Question 7

What is a enjambment

Answer 7

One line runs into the next

Creates the effect of chatting

Question 8

What is a sonnet

Answer 8

a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes,

(Typically having ten syllables per line.)

Question 9

What is the effect of a plosive?

Answer 9

when used repeatedly it creates a verbal reflection of events, items or emotions which have a harsh feel.

Question 10

What is a plosive?

Answer 10

a plosive speech sound. The basic plosives in English are t, k, and p

Question 11

What is semantic field?

Answer 11

Relating to set of semantically related items, for example verbs of perception.

Question 12

What is the effect of semantic feilds?

Answer 12

• also help to create undertones to pieces of literature

- builds emotion, and provides subtle indications to a reader as to what may be about to happen.

Question 13

Whatnis the effect of cesura

Answer 13

but it often has the effect of creating contrast, or providing a pause to allow the reader to take in the information presented in the first part of the line.

Question 14

What is the effectnof enjambment?

Answer 14

-convesation

enjambment creates fluidity,

Enjambment builds a more complex narrative within a poem by fleshing out a thought instead of confining it to one line

Question 15

What is Euphony

Answer 15

the quality of being pleasing to the ear.

Question 16

What is assonance?

Answer 16

• relatively close juxtaposition of similar sounds especially of vowels
• repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants
• resemblance of sound in words or syllables.

Question 17

What is the effect of an alliteration?

Answer 17

Alliteration focuses readers’ attention on a particular section of text.

-can have particular connotations

. For example, repetition of the “s” sound often suggests a snake-like

Question 18

What is the effect of a metaphor?

Answer 18

-creates images that are easier to understand, it actavates imagination and the writer is able to convey more emotions and impressions through the metaphor

Question 19

What is a metaphor?

Answer 19

When a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

E.g the snow is a white blanket

Question 20

What is the effect of colloquial language?

Answer 20

Chatty

-creating a bond between reader and writer that makes it easier for the reader to agree with the writer’s point of view,

Question 21

What is a paradox?

Answer 21

a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true

Question 22

What is the effect of personification?

Answer 22

Personification connects readers with the object that is personified.

Question 23

What is Iambic pentameter?

Answer 23

a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households, both alike in dignity.