Poetry Terms

Question 1

<p>The repetition of the initial consonant sounds</p>

Answer 1

<p>alliteration

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Question 2

<p>reference to a person or event in mythology or history;used to add meaning</p>

Answer 2

<p>allusion</p>

Question 3

<p>a speaker directly addresses an absent person or personified quality, object, or idea</p>

Answer 3

<p>apostrophe</p>

Question 4

<p>the close repetition of vowel sounds</p>

Answer 4

<p>assonance</p>

Question 5

<p>unrhymed lines of poetry</p>

Answer 5

<p>blank verse</p>

Question 6

<p>a pause or break in a line of poetry </p>

Answer 6

<p>caesura</p>

Question 7

<p>two lines of verse that rhyme</p>

Answer 7

<p>couplet</p>

Question 8

<p>a poem in the form of the poem's topic </p>

Answer 8

<p>conrete poem</p>

Question 9

<p>the repetition of a consonant sound two or more times in short succession </p>

Answer 9

<p>consonance</p>

Question 10

<p>the feelings or images associated with a word</p>

Answer 10

<p>connotation</p>

Question 11

<p>the factual meaning of the word or line without emotional coloring</p>

Answer 11

<p>denotation</p>

Question 12

<p>an exaggeration</p>

Answer 12

<p>hyperbolie</p>

Question 13

<p>sensory details to paint a picture in the reader's mind</p>

Answer 13

<p>imagery</p>

Question 14

<p>a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as</p>

Answer 14

<p>metaphor</p>

Question 15

<p>eight lines of poetry grouped together</p>

Answer 15

<p>octave</p>

Question 16

<p>words that sound like what they describe</p>

Answer 16

<p>onomatopoeia</p>

Question 17

<p>two opposite ideas working together</p>

Answer 17

<p>oxymoron</p>

Question 18

<p>giving human qualities to inanimate objects</p>

Answer 18

<p>personification</p>

Question 19

<p>a short composition having the intention of poetry but written in paragraph form rather than verse</p>

Answer 19

<p>prose</p>

Question 20

<p>four lines of poem grouped together</p>

Answer 20

<p>quatrain</p>

Question 21

<p>a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines at a fixed position in the poem</p>

Answer 21

<p>refrain</p>

Question 22

<p>repeating the same words or phrases</p>

Answer 22

<p>repetition </p>

Question 23

<p>anyh fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas</p>

Answer 23

<p>rhyme scheme</p>

Question 24

<p>the end sounds are exactly alike</p>

Answer 24

<p>end rhyme</p>

Question 25

<p>the rhyme involves one syllable</p>

Answer 25

<p>masculine rhyme</p>

Question 26

<p>the rhyme involves two or more syllables</p>

Answer 26

<p>feminine rhyme</p>

Question 27

<p>the sound is similar to make a rhyme, does not need to be exact</p>

Answer 27

<p>approximate rhyme</p>

Question 28

<p>rhyming words within a line</p>

Answer 28

<p>internal rhyme </p>

Question 29

<p>a particular pattern of stress in a poem or kind of poetry</p>

Answer 29

<p>rhythm</p>

Question 30

<p>six lines of poetry grouped together</p>

Answer 30

<p>sestet</p>

Question 31

<p>comparing two unlike things using like or as</p>

Answer 31

<p>simile</p>

Question 32

<p>a poem of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme</p>

Answer 32

<p>sonnet</p>

Question 33

<p>a division of a poem, a grouping of lines</p>

Answer 33

<p>staqnza</p>

Question 34

<p>an object that is used to represent something else</p>

Answer 34

<p>symbol</p>

Question 35

<p>the central idea or message</p>

Answer 35

<p>theme</p>

Question 36

<p>the attitude or feeling of the speaker</p>

Answer 36

<p>tone</p>

Question 37

<p>saying less than one means</p>

Answer 37

<p>understatement</p>