Poetry Terms-English 1 CP

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

Question 2

Hyperbole

Answer 2

Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect.

Question 3

Idiom

Answer 3

An idiom is a common figure of speech whose meaning is different from the literal meaning of its words. For example, the phrase “raining cats and dogs” does not literally mean that cats and dogs are falling from the sky; the expression means “raining heavily.”

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common. Unlike similes, metaphors do not contain the word like or as. In “Ode to My Socks,” Pablo Neruda uses metaphors to compare his socks to multiple objects, including “two long sharks of lapis blue.”

Question 5

Personification

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Personification is a figure of speech in which human qualities are given to an object, animal, or idea. In “Incident in a Rose Garden” by Donald Justice, death is personified as someone who wears black and grins.

Question 6

Internal Rhyme

Answer 6

Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry

Question 7

Slant rhyme

Answer 7

End rhyme that is not exact but approximate.

Question 8

End rhyme

Answer 8

Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines of poetry.

Question 9

Exact Rhyme

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Is the repetition o the same stressed vowel sound.

Question 10

Rhythm

Answer 10

Rhythm is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. Poets use rhythm to bring out the musical quality of language, to emphasize ideas, to create moods, to unify works, and to heighten emotional responses.Musical Rhythm

Question 11

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 11

A rhyme scheme is a pattern of end rhymes in a poem. A rhyme scheme is noted by assigning a letter of the alphabet, beginning with a, to each line. Lines that rhyme are given the same letter.

Question 12

Lambic Pentameter

Answer 12

Iambic pentameter is a metrical pattern of five feet, or units, each of which is made up of two syllables, the first unstressed and the second stressed. Iambic pentameter is the most common meter used in English poetry; it is the meter used in blank verse and in the sonnet.

Question 13

Repetition

Answer 13

Repetition is a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity. Repetition often helps to reinforce meaning and create
an appealing rhythm. The term includes specific devices associated with both prose and poetry, such as alliteration and parallelism.

Question 14

Pun

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A pun is a joke that comes from a play on words. It can make use of a word’s multiple meanings or of a word’s sound. In Romeo and Juliet, when Mercutio is fatally wounded, he says, “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man,” with a pun on the word grave, meaning both “solemn” and “a tomb.”

Question 15

Blank Verse

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Blank verse is unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter. That is, each line of blank verse has five pairs of syllables. In most pairs, an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. The most versatile of poetic forms, blank verse imitates the natural rhythms of English speech. Much of Shakespeare’s drama is in blank verse.

Question 16

Free Verse

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Free verse is poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme. The lines in free verse often flow more naturally than do rhymed, metrical lines and thus achieve a rhythm more like that of everyday speech. Although free verse lacks conventional meter, it may contain various rhythmic and sound effects, such as repetitions of syllables or words.

Question 17

Onomatopoeia

Answer 17

Onomatopoeia is the use of words whose sounds echo their meanings, such as buzz, whisper, gargle, and murmur. Onomatopoeia as a literary technique goes beyond the use of simple echoic words, however. Skilled writers, especially poets, choose words whose sounds intensify images and suggest meanings.

Question 18

Lyric poem

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A lyric poem is a short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings. Most poems other than dramatic and narrative poems are lyric poems.

Question 19

Epic

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An epic is a long narrative poem on a serious subject, presented in an elevated or formal style. It traces the adventures of a great hero whose actions reflect the ideals and values of a nation or race. Epics address universal concerns, such as good and evil, life and death, and sin and redemption. The Odyssey is an epic.

Question 20

Sonnet

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A sonnet is a lyric poem of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic pentameter. Sonnets are often classified as Petrarchan or Shakespearean. The Shakespearean, or Elizabethan, sonnet consists of three quatrains, or four-line units, and a final couplet. The typical rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.

Question 21

Ballad

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A ballad is a type of narrative poem that tells a story and was originally meant to be sung or recited.

Question 22

Simile

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Is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things,using the word like or as.

Question 23

Oxymoron

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is a special kind of concise paradox that brings together two contradictory terms. In Romeo and Juliet, each of the phrases “brawling love,” “loving hate,” “bright smoke,” and “feather of lead” is an oxymoron.

Question 24

Paradox

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A paradox is a seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that may nonetheless suggest an important truth.

Question 25

Archetype

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An archetype is a pattern in literature that
is found in a variety of works from different cultures throughout the ages. An archetype can be a plot, a character,an image, or a setting. For example, the association of death and rebirth with winter and spring is an archetype common to many cultures.

Question 26

Refrain

Answer 26

Lines repeated through a problem