Victorian Poetry

Question 1

Ballad

Answer 1

a song or songlike poem that tells a story

Question 2

Blank Verse

Answer 2

poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 3

Couplet

Answer 3

two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Question 4

Free Verse

Answer 4

poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme

Question 5

Octave

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an eight-line stanza or poem or the first eight lines of an Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet

Question 6

Ode

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a complex, generally long, lyric poem on a serious subject

Question 7

Quatrain

Answer 7

a four-line stanza or poem or a group of four lines unified by a rhyme scheme

Question 8

Sestet

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a six-line stanza or poem or the last six lines of an Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet

Question 9

Sonnet

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a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme schemes

Question 10

Dramatic Monologue

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a poem in which a character addresses one or more listeners who remain silent or whose replies are not revealed

Question 11

Lyric

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poetry that focuses on expressing emotions or thoughts, rather than on telling a story

Question 12

Epic

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a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society

Question 13

Simile

Answer 13

a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles

Question 14

Metaphor

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a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using a connective word

Question 15

Personification

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a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human

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Pun

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a play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings

Question 17

Alliteration

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the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another

Question 18

Approximate Rhyme

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words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes

Question 19

Assonance

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the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together

Question 20

Onomatopoeia

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the use of a word whose sounds imitates or suggests its meaning

Question 21

Refrain

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a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines

Question 22

Apostrophe

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a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something nonhuman as if it were present and capable of responding

Question 23

Hyperbole

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a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect

Question 24

Metonymy

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a figure of speech in which something closely related to a thing or suggested by it is substituted or the thing itself

Question 25

Oxymoron

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a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or incongruous ideas

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Internal Rhyme

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a rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occurs within the line

Question 27

Rhyme

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the repetition of accented vowel sounds all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem

Question 28

Rhythm

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the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language

Question 29

Meter

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a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

Question 30

Caesura

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a pause or break within a line of poetry, usually indicated by the natural rhythm of the language

Question 31

Poetic Foot

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a basic repeated sequence of meter comprised of two or more accented or unaccented syllables

Question 32

Iamb

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a metric foot, or unit of measure, consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Question 33

Iambic Pentameter

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a line of poetry made up of five iambs

Question 34

Consonance

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the repetition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds

Question 35

End Rhyme

Answer 35

rhymes that occur at the end of lines