Poetry Element

Question 1

Poets attitude or point of view toward the subject of the poem

Answer 1

Tone

Question 2

A song which tells a story

Answer 2

Ballad

Question 4

Haiku

Answer 4

A Japanese verse containing three lines

Question 6

Rhyme scheme

Answer 6

The pattern of rhymes used in a poem

Question 7

Repetition of a sound in two or more words (the fun ferret followed)

Answer 7

Alliteration

Question 8

Blank verse

Answer 8

Consists of lines with no rhymes and closest to the natural rhythm of the English language

Question 10

Epic

Answer 10

A lengthy narrative poem on which action characters and language are on a heroic level

Question 11

Hyperbole

Answer 11

And exaggeration for providing emphasis example: he moved at a snails pace cry me a river

Question 12

Verse that lacks regular meter and line lengthy relies upon natural rhythms

Answer 12

Free verse

Question 13

The reader is aware of something that the character is not aware of

Answer 13

Dramatic irony

Question 15

Imagery

Answer 15

The forming of mental images

Question 16

Correspondence in the sound created by two or more words in the same line of first; rhyme falling in the middle as well as the end of line

Answer 16

Internal rhyme

Question 17

Short subjective poem that expresses a state of mind or process about the authors innermost thoughts and feelings

Answer 17

Lyric

Question 18

Simile

Answer 18

A comparison using the words like or as example: her cheeks are as red as roses space her eyes sparkle like diamonds

Question 19

To mean the opposite of what is said

Answer 19

Verbal irony

Question 20

Metaphor

Answer 20

When a comparison is made by saying one thing is another example: she is nothing but a butterfly contentment is a pearl of great price

Question 21

Assonance

Answer 21

The repetition of a vowel sound example; mad as a Hatter sap dash

Question 22

Stanza

Answer 22

Like a poem paragraph

Question 24

Onomatopoeia

Answer 24

A word that suggest its own sound example: hisss, boom, crash, buzz, hum

Question 25

A kind of metaphor that assigns personal attributes to an inanimate things example: the wind sobbed the engine coughed

Answer 25

Personification

Question 27

A figure of speech in which an absent or dead person is dressed as if he were president or in which an inanimate object animal or quality is is dressed as if it were a person example: Littlebrooke I still hear your voice Rome thou has lost the breed of noble man

Answer 27

Apostrophe

Question 28

Words arranged close together beginning with the same letter example: the silent sea Peter piper

Answer 28

Alliteration

Question 29

Consonance

Answer 29

The repetition of a final consonant sound the repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowels example: first and last short and sweet

Question 31

The opposite happens to what was expected

Answer 31

Situational irony

Question 32

Rhyme

Answer 32

Similar sounding words

Question 35

Limerick

Answer 35

Form of light verse, a stanza of five lines rhyming aabba

Question 43

Rhythm

Answer 43

Uniform repetition of beat or accent