Poetry Terms

Question 1

Stanzas

Answer 1

Divides the poetry

Question 2

Diction

Answer 2

Using special words to enhance the meaning

Question 3

Imagry

Answer 3

Uses one of the 5 sense showing a sense of image

Question 4

Mood

Answer 4

The feeling the reader gets

Question 5

Tone

Answer 5

The authors attitude

Question 6

Tone examples

Answer 6

Playful
Cheerful

Question 7

Theme

Answer 7

Moral of the story
What it taught you

Question 8

Allusion

Answer 8

Refrence to a person or historical event

Question 9

Anaphora

Answer 9

Repetiton of a word or phrase a lot

Question 10

Aphostrohe

Answer 10

When the speaker adresses an object or abstract concept

Question 11

Enjabment

Answer 11

Contiuation of a sentence over a line break

Question 12

Dramatic irony

Answer 12

When the reader knows something the characters do not

Question 13

Situational Irony

Answer 13

The opposite of what expected occours

Question 14

Verbal Irony

Answer 14

Sarcasum

Question 15

Juxtaposition

Answer 15

Two opposing ideas are placed together

Question 16

Paralelism

Answer 16

Using similar gramatical structure

Question 17

Paralel structure

Answer 17

Using the same phrase in several sentences

Question 18

Paradoy

Answer 18

Imitating another work

Question 19

Satire

Answer 19

Using Irony to mock something

Question 20

Symbolism

Answer 20

Used to describe something more complicated

Question 21

Anathropism

Answer 21

Turning non humans into humans

Question 22

Eupism

Answer 22

Is the word used to sub out a word that should not be said
Period—-> time of month

Question 23

Hyperbole

Answer 23

Hyperexageration

Question 24

Metaphor

Answer 24

Comparason without like or as

Question 25

Metonoymy

Answer 25

replaces one idea or thought with another in order to create emphasis

Question 26

Oxymoron

Answer 26

Two contradicting words placed together

Question 27

Paradox

Answer 27

Two opposite things put together to unravel a greater meaning

Question 28

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 28

Weather reflects mood

Question 29

Personification

Answer 29

Human characteristics given to a non living thing

Question 30

Pun

Answer 30

A joke

Question 31

Similie

Answer 31

Comparason with like or as

Question 32

Synthesisa

Answer 32

Two senses mixed together

Question 33

Syntheodche

Answer 33

Part representing the whole I will take the wheel

Question 34

Understatement

Answer 34

Opposite of hyperbole

Question 35

Alliteration

Answer 35

Same letter at begining of sentence (sound)

Question 36

Assonance

Answer 36

Repeating similar vowel sounds

Question 37

Caphony

Answer 37

Using harsh distant sounds

Question 38

Euphony

Answer 38

Soft soothing and pleasing sounds

Question 39

Caesura

Answer 39

Natural break or pause

Question 40

Cosonance

Answer 40

Similar vowel sounds

Question 41

Onomatapeia

Answer 41

Bang

Question 42

End Rhyme

Answer 42

At the end of the sentence

Question 43

Internal Rhyme

Answer 43

Sounds within the line

Question 44

Free verse

Answer 44

Unrhymed poetry with no patern

Question 45

Blank verse

Answer 45

Unrhymed poetry with a pattern

Question 46

Epic poems

Answer 46

Long narative poems

Question 47

Ballad

Answer 47

Straightfourward story

Question 48

Lyric poems

Answer 48

Poets feelings

Question 49

Sonnet

Answer 49

14 lines each having 10 rhymes

Question 50

Iambic pentameter

Answer 50

10 rhymes in one line

Question 51

Dramatic poems

Answer 51

Has emotional conflict

Question 52

Concrete poem

Answer 52

The shape of the poem has a meaning

Question 53

Poems of comment

Answer 53

Comment about whats happening in the world