Poetry test

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Audible repetition of consistent sounds at the being of words or within sounds.
Ex. “her hardest hue to hold”

Question 2

Anaphorora

Answer 2

Repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of a series of phrases, lines, or sentences.
Ex. “we have a short time to stay, as you
we have as short as spring

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Audible repetition of vowel sounds within words encountered near each other whose vowel sounds are different.
Ex. “Who knows why the cold wind blows, or where is goes or what it knows.”

Question 2

Consonance

Answer 2

The audible repetition of consonant sounds in words encountered near each other whose vowel sounds are different.
Ex. The repeated ‘s’ sound in the phrase ‘she sells seashells’

Question 3

Onomatopoeia

Answer 3

The formation and use of words which imitates sound
Ex. “BARK” “AHHH” “beep”

Question 4

Rhyme

Answer 4

Creates partnership between words.
Ex. Red sky at night, sailors delight/red sky at morning, sailors warning.

Question 5

Allusion

Answer 5

An indirect reference to something implied but not stated.
Ex. “when there is poetry/ it is Orpheus singing” *in Greek mythology, Orpheus’ song was so enchanting that all the animals and trees gathered to listen.

Question 6

Analogy

Answer 6

A resemblance between two different things, frequently expressed as a simile.
Ex. “poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking”

Question 7

Apostrophe

Answer 7

The poet turns away from the audience to address a God or gods, the muse, a dead or absent person, a natural object, a thing, an imaginary quality or concept. Anything can be addressed.
Ex. “O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being.”

Question 8

Imagery

Answer 8

Relates to the visual content of language.
Ex. All over bouquets of roses,
O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies.

Question 9

Metaphor

Answer 9

A figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another.
Ex. “Life is but a walking shadow”

Question 10

Metonymy

Answer 10

A figure of speech that replaces or substitutes the name of one thing with something else closely associated with it.
Ex. “The pen is mightier than the sword”

Question 11

Personification

Answer 11

The attribution of human qualities in inanimate objects, animals, or ideas.
Ex. “With how sad steps o moon, thou climb’st the skies,
How silently, and how wan a face”

Question 12

Simile

Answer 12

The explicit comparison of one thing to another, sing words as or like.

Question 13

Symbol

Answer 13

Anything that signifies or stands for something else.
Ex. “The rainbow comes and goes,/ And lovely is the Rose”

Question 14

Trope

Answer 14

A way of extending the meaning of words beyond the literal. Words used in a nonliteral sense to create a powerful image.
Ex. “Chicago’s worker bees buzz around the streets,”

Question 15

Caesura

Answer 15

A pause in a poetic line.
Ex. “the world is too much with us; late and soon”

Question 16

Couplet

Answer 16

Two successive lines of poetry, usually rhymed.
“i am his highness’ Dog at Kew
Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you?”

Question 17

Enjambment

Answer 17

The carryover of one line of poetry next without a grammatical break.
Ex. “so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow”

Question 18

free verse

Answer 18

A poetry of organic rhythms and deliberate irregularity. It does not rhyme or meter.
Ex. “My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach,
with the twirl of tongue i encompass worlds and volumes of worlds”

Question 19

Meter

Answer 19

A way of describing rhythmic patterning in poetry, of keeping time, of measuring poetic language. The meter of a poem can slow your down or speed you up.

Question 20

Rhythm

Answer 20

Sound in movement. A combination of syllables that creates a feeling of surprise.

Question 21

Stanza

Answer 21

A group or sequence of poetic lines arranged in a pattern. Each stanza in a poem is like a room in a house, it has its own identity and structural place in the poem.