Unit 2 Poetry & New Vocab

Question 1

What is a stanza?

Answer 1

A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. It is like a paragraph but in poetry form.

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
“the alliteration of “sweet birds sang softly”

Question 2

What is rhyme scheme?

Answer 2

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

Question 3

What is free verse poetry?

Answer 3

Free verse has no pattern in line length or rhyme scheme.

Question 4

Define Pastoral Poetry

Answer 4

Pastoral poems focus mostly on the landscape, nature or other aspects of rural (country) life.

Question 5

Define: Shakespearian Sonnet

Answer 5

Poems by William Shakespeare that contain 14 lines of iambic pentameter (5 heartbeats) with a regular rhyme scheme and a couplet at the end.

Question 6

What is a couplet?

Answer 6

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. Couplets usually are located at the ends of poems.

Question 7

Italian sonnets go by this other name

Answer 7

Petrarchan

Question 8

What is a ballad?

Answer 8

A simple poem that tells a story usually of a tragic event, love, popular legend or act of courage. These poems often are passed through generations in the oral tradition.

Question 9

Define: Elegy

Answer 9

A sad or thoughtful poem, reflecting on the death of a person.

Question 10

What makes an epic poem?

Answer 10

Epic poems are often very long and retells a heroic journey involving superhuman deeds, adventure, and blends dramatic and lyrical artforms with stylized language.

Question 11

Define: Hyperbole

Answer 11

An obvious exaggeration or overstatement

Question 12

Define: Onomatopoeia

Answer 12

A word that imitates the sound it represents

Question 13

Define: Paradox

Answer 13

Reveals something true which at first is contradictory

Question 14

Symbolism

Answer 14

Use of an object or action that represents more than its literal meaning

Question 15

Idiom

Answer 15

An expression with a meaning different than the literal meaning of the words

Question 16

Oxymoron

Answer 16

Two opposite words that make a combined term. Example: icy hot

Question 17

Euphemism

Answer 17

A polite or delicate word or phrase in place of what may be embarrassing or crude.

Question 18

Cliche

Answer 18

An expression that has lost its meaning or originality from overuse

Question 19

Pun

Answer 19

A humorous play on words often involving double meanings

Question 20

Anaphora

Answer 20

In writing or speech, the repetition of the first portion of a sentence or line to achieve emphasis and artistically play with the various ways to end the initial beginning of the sentence.

Question 21

Assonance

Answer 21

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 22

Apostrophe

Answer 22

Dramatically addressing someone or something that is not present or something that is not living. Ex. “You! Clouds! Why do you cry tears of rain?”

Question 23

Internal Rhyme

Answer 23

Rhymes within one line of verse