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1
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What is the voice of a poem, or the narrator?

A

the speaker

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Who is the person speaking to the audience in a poem?

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the voice

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What is the image or personality a character presents called?

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their persona

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What is a poem written from an animal’s point of view called?

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a mask

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What is the character or the attitude of a poem called?

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the tone

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What is the use of words that emphasize a specific style of enunciation?

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diction

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What is the technique of using specific words to invoke a certain idea or feeling called?

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connotation

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What is the technique of using a word where the literally meaning contrasts its feelings called?

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denotation

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What form of poetry uses humor, most often to push a reform?

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satire

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What are the elements of a poem that involves any of the five senses to set a scene called?

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imagery

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What is language that is not literal called?

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figurative language

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What is the expressive, nonliteral use of language called?

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figures of speech

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What is the distance between what is said and what is meant called?

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irony

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What is it called when a speaker says something with a literal meaning different from what they actually mean?

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verbal irony

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What is it called when there is a discrepancy between what is said and what is meant?

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ironic tone of voice

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What is a reference to a person, place, event, or another literary work called?

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an allusion

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What is a reference to classic Greek or Roman literary works called?

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a classical allusion

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What is a reference to the Bible of other Biblical works called?

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a biblical allusion

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What is a reference to another work of literature called?

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a literary allusion

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What is a reference to people or an event with historical significance called?

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a historical allusion

21
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What is a reference to any well-renowned cultural aspect called?

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a cultural allusion

22
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What is a group of lines forming the basic reaccuring metrical unit called?

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a stanza

23
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What is a four-line stanza in iambic meter, where the first and third unrhyming lines have four metrical feet & the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet called?

A

a ballad stanza

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What is a two line verse in the same meter that is joined by rhyme called?

A

a couplet

25
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What is a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters called?

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a heroic couplet

26
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What is a poem with three rhyming lines called?

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a triplet or tercet

27
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What is a stanza consisting of four lines called?

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a quatrain

28
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What is an eight-line stanza or poem called?

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an octave or a sestet

29
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What is a metrical pause in verse where one phrase ends and another begins called?

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a caesura

30
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What is a popular narrative song passed down orally called?

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a ballad

31
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What kind of poetry is known as the poetry of the romantic era and started in Europe?

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romance

32
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What is a lengthy poem about the deeds of an extraordinary character called?

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an epic

33
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What type of poem is about lovers separating at dawn?

A

an aubade

34
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What is a poem aiming to instruct the reader to celebrate the present called?

A

a carpe diem poem

35
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What is a poem written for a special occasion called?

A

an occasional poem

36
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What is a poem lamenting someone’s death called?

A

an elegy

37
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What is a poem praising God or the divine called?

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a hymn

38
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What type of poem has three stanzas, where the first and third are five syllables and the second is seven?

A

a haiku

39
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What type of poem has five lines and an AABBA rhyme scheme?

A

a limerick

40
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What type of poem is four stanzas, where the first and third are four lines and the last is two?

A

an Elizabethan sonnet

41
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What type of poem is two stanzas, where the first is eight lines about love and the second is six lines about love dying?

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a Petrarchan sonnet

42
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What is a poem with regular metics, in iambic pentameter, but no rhyme scheme called?

A

blank verse

43
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What type of poem has no metric or rhyming pattern?

A

free verse

44
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What type of poem is written to mock the epic style?

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a mock epic

45
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What kind of poem is three stanzas, where the first and last lines rhyme?

A

a terza rima

46
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What type of poem is nineteen lines, six stanzas, with an ABA ABA rhyme scheme and an ending couplet?

A

a villanelle

47
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What kind of poem is six verses of six lines with six ending words in a different order each time?

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a sestina

48
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What type of poem starts with an initial set of lines that reverses halfway through the piece?

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a palindrome

49
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What kind of poem is written in prose form?

A

a prose poem

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