Poetry Vocab

Question 1

Shakespearean Sonnet

Answer 1

The variation of the sonnet form that Shakespeare used—comprised of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg

Question 2

Petrarchan Sonnet

Answer 2

perfected by the Italian poet Petrarch; an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.

Question 3

Alliteration

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Question 5

Personification

Answer 5

Where an inanimate object is given human characteristics.

Question 6

Shift / Turn / Volta

Answer 6

When the mood, tone, or perspective changes in the poem.

Question 7

Meter

Answer 7

arrangements of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of poetry.

Question 8

Iambic

Answer 8

simply an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.

Question 9

Trochaic

Answer 9

A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed

Question 10

Allusion

Answer 10

a reference

Question 11

Simile

Answer 11

using like or as to compare two things

Question 12

Consonance

Answer 12

to create certain repeated sounds throughout a written work…occurs when words share the same consonant sounds

Question 13

Assonance

Answer 13

the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes.

Question 14

Couplet

Answer 14

two lines of verse that follow one another and are connected by rhythm and rhyme