Poetry Terms

Question 1

apostrophe

Answer 1

addressing speech to something insensate

Question 2

assonance

Answer 2

the use of similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants

Question 3

ballad meter

Answer 3

four lines of alternating iambic tetrameter and iambic trimester

Question 4

blank verse

Answer 4

unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 5

caesura

Answer 5

a pause, metrical or rhetorical, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry

Question 6

elegy

Answer 6

a poem eulogizing the dead

Question 7

end stopped

Answer 7

a line that has a natural pause at the end (period, comma, etc.)

Question 8

enjambment

Answer 8

the running over of a sentence or thought into the next couplet or line without a pause at the end of the line; a run on-line

Question 9

eye rhyme

Answer 9

words whose spellings would lead one to think that they are rhymed (slough, tough, cough)

Question 10

foot

Answer 10

the basic unit of meter

Question 11

free verse

Answer 11

poetry that has no pattern of rhyme or rhythm

Question 12

heroic couplet

Answer 12

two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter

Question 13

iamb

Answer 13

a set of two syllables in which the accent is on the second syllable

Question 14

internal rhyme

Answer 14

rhyme within a line of poetry

Question 15

metonymy

Answer 15

a figurative device that uses a closely associated object etc. to stand in for the person or thing that is the real subject

Question 16

musical device

Answer 16

techniques that can be used to create a desired “sound” to a passage of language, such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme, and rhythm

Question 17

octave

Answer 17

a set or stanza of eight lines generally rhymed abbabba

Question 18

ode

Answer 18

dignified or elaborately structured lyric poem praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating an event, or describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally

Question 19

onomatopoeia

Answer 19

words that mimic the sounds of the objects they name

Question 20

synecdoche

Answer 20

the use of the whole to represent one of its parts or the use of a part to represent the whole.