Unit 2

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

The repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds (clasps, crag, crooked)

Question 2

Antithesis

Answer 2

A rhetorical device that uses syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meanings

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines of poetry or grammatical units

Question 4

Assonance

Answer 4

The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words. (Clasps, crag, hands)

Question 5

Caesura

Answer 5

A pause in the middle of a line of poetry usually indicated by a mark of punctuation

Question 6

Chiasmus

Answer 6

Two parallel phrases, clauses or sentences in which the second reverses the elements of the first, inverting the parallel structure

Question 7

Consonance

Answer 7

The repetition of terminal consonant sounds and more rarely of internal consonants that creates extra emphasis on the word involved. (Clasps, hands)

Question 8

Enjambment

Answer 8

A poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next with no punctuation at the end of the first verse line

Question 9

Eye Rhyme

Answer 9

Word pairs that are spelled alike but pronounced differently

Question 10

Free Verse

Answer 10

Poetry with no set meter or rhyme

Question 11

Internal Rhyme

Answer 11

Rhyme that occurs between words within a single line of poetry.

Question 12

Perfect Rhyme

Answer 12

Agreement of sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward with a difference in the immediately preceding consonant sounds.

Question 13

Slant Rhyme

Answer 13

A rhyme between two words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds. (Star and door)

Question 14

End Rhyme

Answer 14

Rhyme that occurs at the end of corresponding lines of poetry and

Question 15

Meter

Answer 15

The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

To describe a particular meter of a poem one must determine the poetic feet and consider the length of the line. Meter can produce various moods, depending on the combination of poetic foot and line length

Iambic Pentameter is the most common in English

Question 16

Onomatopoeia

Answer 16

The use of words that sound like what they mean (“clangity-clang”) (hiss, buzz)

Question 17

Poetic Feet

Answer 17

The specific combination of two or three stressed and/or unstressed syllables that predominantly repeats throughout the poem’s lines

Question 18

Rhetoric

Answer 18

The art of public speaking

Question 19

Rhetorical Question

Answer 19

(Short answer) questions asked not to receive information but to achieve an effect

Question 20

Rhyme

Answer 20

Two or more words having identical sounds in the last stressed vowel and all of the sounds following that vowel

Question 21

End Stopped lines

Answer 21

Lines of poetry that end with a natural pause indicated by punctuation

Question 22

Feminine Ending

Answer 22

In poetry, a line ending in which the final syllable is unstressed

Question 23

Masculine Ending

Answer 23

In poetry, a line engine in which the final syllable is stressed