Poetry Subject Terms

Question 1

simile

Answer 1

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

Question 2

metaphor

Answer 2

figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea

Question 3

caesura

Answer 3

a pause near the middle of a line.

Question 4

enjambment

Answer 4

incomplete syntax at the end of a line which moves from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation

Question 5

tone and tonal shift

Answer 5

The emotion expressed through voice and shows how the character is feeling shifting the tone shows a change of emotion or the story progressing

Question 6

iambic pentameter

Answer 6

a line of writing that consists of ten syllables in a specific pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable,

Question 7

personification

Answer 7

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Question 8

alliteration

Answer 8

occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Question 9

rhyme scheme

Answer 9

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme

Question 10

rhythm

Answer 10

the measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables.

Question 11

repetition

Answer 11

Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words

Question 12

onomatopoeia

Answer 12

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle )

Question 13

Slang

Answer 13

a type of language consisting of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people.

Question 14

colloquial language

Answer 14

Colloquial language and expressions could be things like informal words, phrases, and slang words. They used by writers to create a sense of community and society

Question 15

nonsensical language

Answer 15

Gibberish, also called jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, is speech that is (or appears to be) nonsense. It may include speech sounds that are not actual words, pseudowords, or language games and specialized jargon that seems nonsensical to outsiders.

Question 16

hyperbole

Answer 16

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.