Poetry Methods

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

A type of consonance where the repeated sound is in the emphasised parts of the words

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an effect

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

The repetition of a vowel sound between words to create an internal rhyme and rhythm

Question 4

Asyndeton

Answer 4

Leaving out a conjunction (such as and, as , I went, I saw) where one would normally be expected

Question 5

Cacophony

Answer 5

A harsh discordant mixture of sounds

Question 6

Caesura

Answer 6

A pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry

Question 7

Consonance

Answer 7

The repetition of a consonant more than twice in quick succession

Question 8

Elegy

Answer 8

A mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead

Question 9

Epistrophe

Answer 9

The repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of lines, clauses or sentences

Question 10

Epizeuxis

Answer 10

When words or phrases are repeated in a quick succession after each other for emphasis

Question 11

Euphony

Answer 11

Sounds which are pleasing to the ear

Question 12

Eye-rhyme

Answer 12

A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation

Eg. Love and Move

Question 13

Feminine Rhyme

Answer 13

Rhyme that matches two or more syllables usually at the end of respective lines in which the final syllable or syllables are unstressed

Question 14

Fricatives

Answer 14

Sounds that are made by nearly closing your mouth including ‘f’, ‘th’, and ‘v’

Question 15

Half rhyme

Answer 15

Type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds

Question 16

Masculine rhyme

Answer 16

Rhyme on a single stressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry

Question 17

Onomatopoeia

Answer 17

A word that sounds something like the thing described

Question 18

Parallelism

Answer 18

The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter

Question 19

Plosives

Answer 19

Sounds that can only be made by stopping the passage of air to or from the lungs like ‘p’, ‘t’, ‘k’, ‘b’, ‘d’, ‘g’.

Question 20

Polysindeton

Answer 20

The use of several conjunctions in close succession especially where some could otherwise be omitted

Question 21

Rhyme

Answer 21

The repetition of similar sounds or the same sound in two or more words usually at the end of lines in poems and songs

Question 22

Rhyming couplet

Answer 22

A two line stanza in a poem where both lines rhyme with each other

Question 23

Sibilance

Answer 23

A specific type of alliteration that uses soft consonant sounds like ‘s’ and ‘sh’

Question 24

Syllable

Answer 24

An uninterrupted sound that is used to build a word

Words with only one syllable are monosyllabic and words with many syllables are polysyllabic

Question 25

Syntax

Answer 25

The order in which words are put together to form clauses and sentences