Poetry Terms

Question 0

comparison of two dissimilar things (not using like or as)

Answer 0

metaphor

Question 1

comparing two dissimilar things using “like” or “as”

Answer 1

simile

Question 2

components of a metaphor

Answer 2

tenor

vehicle

Question 3

tenor

Answer 3

the subject of which the metaphor is applied

Question 4

vehicle

Answer 4

the metaphorical term itself

Question 5

a metaphor where the tenor is not specified

Answer 5

implied metaphor

Question 6

metaphor extended throughout a few lines of a poem or an entire poem

Answer 6

extended metaphor

Question 7

giving human qualities to an inanimate object

Answer 7

personification

Question 8

word choice

Answer 8

diction

Question 9

emotions/associations attached to a word

Answer 9

connotation

Question 10

literal/dictionary meaning if a word

Answer 10

denotation

Question 11

universal symbol/ literary device

Answer 11

archetype

Question 12

“seize the day” - live life to the fullest

Answer 12

carpe diem

Question 13

short poem that expresses strong feeling (does not tell a story)

Answer 13

lyric

Question 14

language that appeals to the five senses

Answer 14

imagery

Question 15

the beat is poetry/ how stressed & unstressed syllables make the voice rise & fall

Answer 15

rhythm

Question 16

a strict rhythmic pattern or stressed & unstressed syllables

Answer 16

meter

Question 17

loose rhythm – no strict pattern

Answer 17

free verse

Question 18

poetry that has meter

Answer 18

metrical poetry

Question 19

marking the syllables in a poem to determine the meter

Answer 19

scansion

Question 20

unit consisting of at least one stressed & one unstressed syllable usually one or more unstressed syllables

Answer 20

foot

Question 21

insist

u. /

Answer 21

iamb

Question 22

double

/. u

Answer 22

trochee

Question 23

understand

u. u. /

Answer 23

anapest

Question 24

excellent | /. u. u

Answer 24

dactyl

Question 25

a poem that tells a story

Answer 25

narrative

Question 26

a song or song like poem that tells a story

Answer 26

ballad

Question 27

a fourteen line lyric poem written within very strict guidelines

Answer 27

sonnet

Question 28

three quatrains iambic pentameter rhyme scheme - abab cdcd efef gg

Answer 28

Shakespearean sonnet

Question 29

rhyming group of four lines

Answer 29

quatrain

Question 30

pair of rhyming lives

Answer 30

couplet

Question 31

occurs at the end lines of poetry

Answer 31

end rhyme

Question 32

occurs within a line of poetry

Answer 32

internal rhyme

Question 33

words that sound similar but do not rhyme

Answer 33

slant rhyme

Question 34

pattern of rhymed lines in a poem

Answer 34

rhyme scheme

Question 35

words that look like they should rhyme but don't

Answer 35

eye rhyme

Question 36

repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that appear close together

Answer 36

alliteration

Question 37

the use of a word whose sound imitated or suggests it's meaning

Answer 37

onomatopoeia