Subject Terminology - Poetic Devices

Question 1

assonance

Answer 1

rhyming of vowels but not constants

Question 2

caesura

Answer 2

a pause in a line (middle)

Question 3

colloquialism

Answer 3

a word or phrase suitable for informal speech or writing

Question 4

context

Answer 4

words before and after or sentences that help make its meaning clear

Question 5

dialect

Answer 5

spoken text by a character/object in writing

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enjambment

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continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

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irony

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mildly sarcastic use of words to imply the opposite of what is said

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oxymoron

Answer 8

figure of speech that joins 2 opposite ideas

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rhythm

Answer 9

the reoccurring beat or pace of writing

Question 10

sensory language

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the use of words to create a connection to any of the 5 senses

Question 11

stanza

Answer 11

a division of a poem with 2 or more lines

Question 12

verse

Answer 12

a collection of metrical lines of poetry

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ballad

Answer 13

a poem/text/story passed down by speech not written

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blank verse

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un-rhyming verse in iambic pentameter lines

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couplet

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a pair of end-rhymed lines of verses that are self contained in grammatical structure and meaning

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dramatic monologue

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written in the firm of a a speech of an individual character

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end ryhme

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a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses

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end stopped line

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a metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break

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free verse

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verse with irregular line length, rhyming (if at all) irregulary

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half-rhyme

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2 words where only their final constants have common sounds

Question 21

internal rhyme

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rhyme between a word within the line and another at the line end of within another line

Question 22

line break

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the end of a line and beginning of a new line

Question 23

quatrain

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a 4-line stanza

Question 24

sonnet

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a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines

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anagnorisis

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the moment that a character discovers another character’s true identity or the moment of realisation

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anapest

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a metrical foot that consists of two unstressed syllables follows by an unstressed syllable

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anthropmorphism

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giving human characteristics to a god, animal or object

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archaism

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a very old, or old-fashioned style of language or art

Question 29

elegy

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a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead

Question 30

elision

Answer 30

the omission of sounds, syllables of words in speech

Question 31

refrain

Answer 31

the line or lines that are repeated in poetry