Sophisticated Terms

Question 1

Effusion

Answer 1

A word meaning a spontaneous expression.

Question 2

Elegy

Answer 2

A poem lamenting a dead person or persons.

Question 3

Epithalamium

Answer 3

A poem celebrating a wedding.

Question 4

Anaphora

Answer 4

the repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, passages

Question 5

Anastrophe

Answer 5

inversion of usual word order

Question 6

Aposiopesis

Answer 6

breaking off in the middle of a sentence

Question 7

Apostrophe

Answer 7

addressing a person who is not present

Question 8

Asyndeton

Answer 8

omission of conjunctions:

Question 9

Ellipsis

Answer 9

omission of words

Question 10

Metonymy

Answer 10

substitution of one word for another that it suggests

Question 11

Polysyndeton

Answer 11

use of many conjunctions

Question 12

Synecdoche

Answer 12

use of part to express a whole

Question 13

Zeugma

Answer 13

use of one word in two different senses simultaneously

Question 14

Alexandrine

Answer 14

12-syllable iambic line adapted from French heroic verse.

Question 15

Anapest

Answer 15

A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.

Question 16

Aubade

Answer 16

A love poem or song welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn.

Question 17

Chiasmus

Answer 17

Repetition of any group of verse elements (including rhyme and grammatical structure) in reverse order, such as the rhyme scheme ABBA.

Question 18

Consonance

Answer 18

A resemblance in sound between two words, or an initial rhyme (see also Alliteration). Consonance can also refer to shared consonants, whether in sequence (“bed” and “bad”) or reversed (“bud” and “dab”).

Question 19

Dactyl

Answer 19

A metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables; the words “poetry” and “basketball” are both dactylic.

Question 20

Elision

Answer 20

The omission of unstressed syllables (e.g., “ere” for “ever,” “tother” for “the other”), usually to fit a metrical scheme.

Question 21

Iamb

Answer 21

One short, One long

Question 22

Spondee

Answer 22

Two long

Question 23

Trochee

Answer 23

Long, short

Question 24

Dactyl

Answer 24

Long, short, short

Question 25

Anapest

Answer 25

Short,short, long