Poetry Terms Part 2

Question 1

Hyperbole

Answer 1

A figure of speech composed of striking exaggeration

Question 2

Free Verse

Answer 2

A poetry style that does not follow the rules of metrics or rhyming

Question 3

Open Verse

Answer 3

A poetry style that ignores all rules of structure and patterns

Question 4

Haiku

Answer 4

A Japanese verse form most often composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. It often features an image, or a pair of images, meant to depict the essence of a specific moment in time

Question 5

Onomatopoeia

Answer 5

A figure of speech in which the sound of a word imitates its sense (for example, “choo-choo,” “hiss,” or “buzz”)

Question 6

Metaphor

Answer 6

A comparison that is made directly or less directly, but in any case without pointing out a similarity by using words such as “like,” “as,” or “than”

Question 7

Assonance

Answer 7

The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants; sometimes called vowel rhyme

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person

Question 9

Refrain

Answer 9

A phrase or line repeated at intervals within a poem, especially at the end of a stanza

Question 10

Cacophony

Answer 10

Harsh or discordant sounds, often the result of repetition and combination of consonants within a group of words

Question 11

Euphony

Answer 11

the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words