Poetry Glossary 11-20

Question 1

Dramatic monologue

Answer 1

poem where an imagined speaker adresses a silent listener

Question 2

Eclogue

Answer 2

Brief, dramatic pastoral poem set in idyllic rural place but discusses urban, political or social issues

Question 3

End-stopped

Answer 3

metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break

Question 4

Enjambent

Answer 4

the running over of a sentence from one poetic line to the next without terminal punctuation

Question 5

Free verse

Answer 5

nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech

Question 6

Fricative

Answer 6

a consanant sound produced by bringing the mouth into position to block the passage of the air stream but not making complete closure

Question 7

Imagery

Answer 7

Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to make a set of mental image

Question 8

Litotes

Answer 8

A deliberate understatement for affect

Question 9

Motif

Answer 9

a central or recurring image or action in a literary work and may serve an overall theme

Question 10

Onomatopoeia

Answer 10

A figure of speech in which the sound of a word imitates its sense