poetry vocab examples

Question 1

gnus never know pneumonia

Answer 1

alliteration

Question 2

papa above! regard a mouse - Emily Dickinson

Answer 2

apostrophe

Question 3

“irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast”

Answer 3

cacophonous

Question 4

to err is human, to forgive is divine

Answer 4

caesura

Question 5

John Donne’ poem in which he compares his soul and his wife’s to legs of a mathematical compass

Answer 5

conceit

Question 6

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam”

Answer 6

elegy

Question 7

true ease in writing comes from Art, not Chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Answer 7

end-stopped

Question 8

If Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa’s brook that flow’d fast by the oracle of god

Answer 8

enjambment

Question 9

a thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increase; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep

Answer 9

euphony

Question 10

John Donne compares a beautiful woman to fish bait and men and fish who want to be caught by woman and carries them throughout the poem

Answer 10

extended metaphor

Question 11

but when to mischief mortals bend their will
how soon they find fit instruments of ill

Answer 11

heroic couplet

Question 12

no this my hand rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine making the green one red

Answer 12

Hyperbole

Question 13

be long pre dict a way

Answer 13

iamb

Question 14

know then thyself presume not god to scan the proper study of mankind is man

Answer 14

iambic pentameter

Question 15

silver screen - movies crown - king

Answer 15

metonymy

Question 16

sad joy wise fool

Answer 16

oxymoron

Question 17

the child is father of the man

Answer 17

paradox

Question 18

hired hand - worker wheels - car

Answer 18

synecdoche

Question 19

macbeth after killing duncan “twas a rough night”

Answer 19

understatement