Poetry List 2

Question 1

– an elaborate or strained metaphor

Answer 1

Conceit

Question 2

– is directly and unapologetically instructional or informational: it teaches or explains something such as a truth, a moral, a principle or a process.
derives from the Greek didaktikos (“able to teach”).

Answer 2

Didactic poem

Question 3

– a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

Answer 3

Elegy

Question 4

– a short stanza at the end of a poem such as ballad used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.

Answer 4

Envoy

Question 5

– called a visual rhyme or a sight rhyme, is a rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently.

Answer 5

Eye Rhyme

Question 6

– a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match.

Answer 6

Half Rhyme

Question 7

– a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.

Answer 7

Trope

Question 8

• the most basic unit of a poem’s meter. A foot is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables

Answer 8

Poetic foot

Question 9

• is the process of marking the stresses in a poem, and working out the metre from the distribution of stresses.

Answer 9

Scansion