Poetry Glossary 1-10

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

extended metaphor where the characters, places, and objects carry figurative meaning

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

brief and intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement

Question 3

Anadiplosis

Answer 3

repetitions of the last word of one clause or sentence at the beginning of the next

Question 4

Anaphora

Answer 4

repetition of a word or words to achieve a certain affect when heard

Question 5

Anthropomorphism

Answer 5

form of personification where human qualities are attributed to anything inhuman e.g. god, animals, objects

Question 6

Assonance

Answer 6

repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants

Question 7

Aysndeton

Answer 7

absense of a conjunction between parts of a sentence

Question 8

Blank verse

Answer 8

10 syllable line. unrhyming iambic pentameter

Question 9

Caesura

Answer 9

stop of pause in the middle of a metrical line

Question 10

Chremamorphism

Answer 10

Giving characteristics of an object to a person