Poetry Terms

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

The repetition of the sound of a vowel or letter in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.
(Go and Mow the lawn)

Question 4

Ballad

Answer 4

A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.

Question 5

Biographical Poems

Answer 5

Same as regular biographies but with an artistic flair.

Question 6

Blank verse

Answer 6

No rhyme uses iambic pentameter

Question 7

Cinquain

Answer 7

A five line stanza

Question 8

Concrete poem

Answer 8

Writing in the shape that it is about

Question 9

Couplet

Answer 9

Two line verse

Question 10

Foot

Answer 10

Combination of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 11

Free Verse

Answer 11

No rhyme or meter

Question 12

Haiku

Answer 12

Japanese 5 7 5

Question 13

Hyperbole

Answer 13

Exaggerating

Question 14

Imagery

Answer 14

Visually descriptive words

Question 15

Irony

Answer 15

Something that normally signifies the opposite

Fire station burned down

Question 16

Line

Answer 16

Unit of language in which a poem or play is divided.

Question 17

Lyric poem

Answer 17

Emotional song like poetry

Question 18

Metaphor

Answer 18

Figure of speech in which a word
Or phrase Is applied to an object that it shouldn’t be.

(He drowned in a sea of grief)

Question 19

Meter

Answer 19

Stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern

Question 20

Narrative poem

Answer 20

Tells a story

Question 21

Onomatopoeia

Answer 21

Words that look how they sound. Splat bang pop

Question 22

Paradox

Answer 22

Self-contradictory

Beginning of the end

Question 23

Personification

Answer 23

Human characteristics to non- humans

Question 24

Rhyme.

Answer 24

Glow blow- masculine

Stocking shocking- Feminine

Question 25

Simile

Answer 25

Comparison using like or as.

Question 26

Sonnet

Answer 26

14 lines

Any rhyme schemes (10)

Question 27

Speaker

Answer 27

Word place character or object. That means something beyond what it is on literal scale

Question 28

Stanza

Answer 28

Group of lines

Question 29

Symbol

Answer 29

Something that represents something else. (Sun=Gods eye)

Question 30

Theme

Answer 30

Underlying message

Question 31

Tone

Answer 31

Attitude towards the reader