Poetry Breakdown

Question 1

________Poem does not rhyme

Answer 1

Free verse

Question 2

A _________ uses imagery to express a feeling and uses rhythm, regular meter, and rhyme.

Answer 2

Lyrical Poem

Question 3

Verse is one line of poem.

Answer 3

Verse

Question 4

_________is created when two words have the same ending sounds.

Answer 4

Rhyme

Question 5

The average word has three component parts: sound, denotation, and connotation.

Answer 5

Word Components

Question 6

In ________ the comparison is expressed by the use of some word or phrase such as like, as than, similar to, resembles or seems; in metaphor the comparison is implied

Answer 6

Simile

Question 7

__________consists in giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept.

Answer 7

Personification

Question 8

________, which consists in addressing someone absent or something non-human as if it were alive and present and could reply to what is being said.

Answer 8

Apostrophe

Question 9

A________ is an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless true.

Answer 9

Paradox

Question 10

________, saying the opposite of what one means, is often confused with sarcasm and with satire.

Answer 10

Verbal Irony

Question 11

The term ________always implies some sort of discrepancy or incongruity: between what is said and what is meant, or between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment

Answer 11

Irony

Question 12

The term________ refers to any wave like recurrence of motion or sound

Answer 12

Rhythm

Question 13

The________is the metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured

Answer 13

Foot

Question 14

A line that ends with a stressed syllable is said to have a masculine ending and a line that ends with an extra syllable is said to have a feminine ending

Answer 14

Masculine/Feminine

Question 15

A pause within a line is called a ________

Answer 15

Caesura

Question 16

The third unit, the________, consists of a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout poem

Answer 16

Stanza

Question 17

________ is made up of unrhymed iambic parameter lines

Answer 17

Blank Verse

Question 18

________ is a lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead

Answer 18

Elegy

Question 19

________ is a brief, pointed, and witty poem of no prescribed form.

Answer 19

Epigram

Question 20

________is a five-line poem in which lines 1, 2, and 5 are anapestic trimeters and lines 3 and 4 are anapestic dimeters, rhymed as aabbaa. Possible source of origin is ________, _________

Answer 20

Limerick

Limerick, Ireland

Question 21

________is a poem of emotional intensity and expresses powerful feelings.

Answer 21

Lyric

Question 22

________, English in origin, is a poem of indefinite length, divided in 10-line stanzas, rhymed, with different schemes for each stanza – ababcdecde, written in iambic meter.

Answer 22

Ode

Question 23

________is a fourteen line poem.

Answer 23

Sonnet