Poetry

Question 1

Stanza

Answer 1

a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem

Question 2

Quatrain

Answer 2

a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.

Question 3

Caesura

Answer 3

a pause near the middle of a line.

Question 4

Enjambment

Answer 4

a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line,

Question 5

Alliteration

Answer 5

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning

Question 6

Assonance

Answer 6

resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words,

Question 7

Emotive Language

Answer 7

specific word choices that are made in order to elicit an emotional response from the reader/listener.

Question 8

Oxymoron

Answer 8

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory

Question 9

Metaphor

Answer 9

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Question 10

Simile

Answer 10

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

Question 11

Rhyme

Answer 11

correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

Question 12

Contrast

Answer 12

the state of being strikingly different from something else

Question 13

volta

Answer 13

change in tone

Question 14

sensory language

Answer 14

touch taste hear see

Question 15

Fricative alliteration

Answer 15

alliteration of “v” and “f” sounds

Question 16

Plosive

Answer 16

Plosives sound like ‘buh’ and ‘puh’ (B and P). They’re called this because they make an explosive sound when forced from the lips

Question 17

juxtaposition

Answer 17

the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

Question 18

Adjective

Answer 18

a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical.