Poetry Terms

Question 1

Anachronism

Answer 1

Something that is not placed in its proper time period

Question 2

Apostrophe

Answer 2

Speaker addresses a dead or a scent person

Question 3

Ballad

Answer 3

A proem that tells story through word

Question 4

Conceit

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Elaborate or surprising comparison between 2 very dissimilar things

Question 5

Couplets

Answer 5

2 successive lines of rhyming verse

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Elegy

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Peons that lament the loss of someone or something

Question 7

Epic

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Long, narrative formal peom. Of a hero or mythic thing.

Question 8

Epigraph

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An inscription

Question 9

Epitaph

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An inscription for the dead (usually on tombs)

Question 10

Euphemism

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Substituting a mild term for a considered harsh or offensive

Question 11

Heroic couplets

Answer 11

Rhymed lines of iambic pants meter

Question 12

Juxtaposition

Answer 12

Act or instance of placing 2 or more things side by side

Question 13

Metaphysical poems

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Poetry with psychological or spiritual sub. 17th century poems

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Monologue

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Extended narrative

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Ode

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Deals with subject in an elevated manor

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Onomatopoeia

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Word sounds

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Oxymoron

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Juxtaposes 2 contradictory words for effect

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Pathetic fallacy

Answer 18

Human emotions inanimate nature

Question 19

Petrarchan

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Elaborate imagery and figure of speech and elevation from poet Petrarch

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Quatrain

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Stanza with 4 lines

Question 21

Satire

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Irony, wit and sarcasm to expose humanities vices

Question 22

Scansion

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Analysis with symbols or meter

Question 23

Sestina

Answer 23

French verse
6 sestets
3 line. Conclusionary stanza

Question 24

Syntax

Answer 24

Word order

Question 25

The absurd

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20 century

Deuces absurdity of humans

Question 26

Tragedy

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Greek. Somber drama goes from good to bad

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Transcendentalism

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We can rise above normal ways of learning

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Utopia

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Great and wonderful nonexistent place

Question 29

Valediction

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Speech made as a farewell.

Question 30

Verisimilitude

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Something that appears real or true

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Victorianism

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1837 queen eliveth rain

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Zeugma

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He learned in his lectern and stale jokes

Question 33

Metonymy

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One word related to something used inplace of the thing

Question 34

Synecdoche

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Metonymy part of something

Nice weeks

Question 35

Allegory

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Presentation of an abstract through a concrete