Poetry Terms Kieran

Question 1

Diction

Answer 1

the combination of denotation and connotation
word choices working together

Question 2

Denotation

Answer 2

A words explicit meaning

Question 3

Connotation

Answer 3

The associations a word carries

Question 4

Shifts

Answer 4

indicate some type of change, often in the speaker’s perspective

Question 5

Tone

Answer 5

Provides the emotional coloring, of a work and
is a direct reflection of the speaker’s attitude. diction is often the primanly contributor to a poem’s tone.

Question 6

Similie

Answer 6

Making comparisons by using the words like, as, or than

Question 7

Metaphors

Answer 7

Directly state that one thing is another

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

Giving something human qualities

Question 9

Extended metaphor/conceit

Answer 9

One that spans several lines of a work

Question 10

Imagery

Answer 10

Language that appeals to any of the five senses

Question 11

Syntax

Answer 11

Arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentances

Question 12

Inversion

Answer 12

Maintaining rhyme scheme, but also proves a point

Question 13

Enjambent

Answer 13

Run-on line, one line ends without a pause and must continue onto the next line to complete its meaning

Question 14

Caesura

Answer 14

A pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated sometimes not

Question 15

Rhythm

Answer 15

Patterned reoccurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features of sound

Question 16

Meter

Answer 16

Lines in structured poems that follow a regular pattern of rhythm, counts measure of a line

Question 17

Feet

Answer 17

Pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables

Question 18

Iambic pentameter line

Answer 18

Consists of five iambic feet

Question 19

Italian/Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 19

divided into an Octave (eight lines) rhyming abba, abba and a sestet (six lines with a variety of different rhyme schemes; cdcdcd, cdecde, or cddcdd

Question 20

English/Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 20

Three four-line stanzas and a couplet at the end.
Rhymes abab cdcd efef gg

Question 21

Elegy

Answer 21

Contemplative poem, typically for someone who died

Question 22

Lyric

Answer 22

Short poem expressing the personal thoughts/feelings of a first-person speaker

Question 23

Ode

Answer 23

Form of poetry used to meditate on or address a single object or condition. Originally followed strict rules of rhythm and rhyme but by romantic period it was more flexible

Question 24

Villanelle

Answer 24

Form of poetry in which five tercets or three-line stanzas (rhyme scheme aba) are followed by a quatrain ( rhyme scheme ababd) at the end of tercets two and four, first line of tercet one is repeated, last line of tercet one is repeated

Question 25

Volta

Answer 25

Turn of thought or argument in a sonnet