begrippen

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

the repitition of similair consonant, usually at the beginning of words. these words are usually important and stressed words tht have a meaning in the poem.
(a good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies)

Question 2

black humor

Answer 2

absurd and often horrible way to make fun of something that most people take seriously
(i have many jokes about unemployed people, sadlu none of them work)

Question 3

euphemism

Answer 3

a euphemism is when a more mild or indirect word or expression is used in the place of another word or phrase that is considerd harsh, blut, vulgar or unpleasent. (passed away instead of dead)

Question 4

hyperbole

Answer 4

hyperbole is an exaggerated statement that’s not meant to be taken litterally by the reader. it is often used for comedic and/or emphasis. (it cost an arm and a leg)

Question 5

lamb

Answer 5

a combination of an unstressed and a stressed syllable

Question 6

irony

Answer 6

a situation is said to be ironic when the oppisite happens of what you expected

Question 7

imagery

Answer 7

the use of pictures in words, this may be an metaphor, simile or symbol

Question 8

limerick

Answer 8

a short, usually humorous poem rhyming aa bb a

Question 9

narrator

Answer 9

the person who tells the story

Question 10

metaphor

Answer 10

comparisson without ‘as’or ‘like’ (she is an early bird)

Question 11

metre

Answer 11

a fixed recurrent rhythm in language, in english this is usually iambic. you get this when you alternate an unstressed syllable with a stressed one as in

Question 12

movement

Answer 12

movement of the lines. the meaning of the words may force the rhythm to go in another direction than the mertre

Question 13

oxymoron

Answer 13

an oxymoron is a combination of two words that together, express a contradictory meaning. this device is often used for emphasis, humor, to create tension or to illustrate a paradox. (biitersweet, deafening silence)

Question 14

paradox

Answer 14

a statement that seems on its face to face to be self-contradictory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning (all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others)

Question 15

personification

Answer 15

when a abstract conept is spoken as if it were human

Question 16

pun

Answer 16

play on words. (a boiled egg every morning is hard to beat)

Question 17

repetition

Answer 17

the repeating of words, phrases or entire lines for the sake of emphasis or rhythm

Question 18

simile

Answer 18

comparison with ‘as’ or ‘like’ (cold as ice)

Question 19

setting

Answer 19

the time and place where the action of a story or poem is shown as happening

Question 20

satire

Answer 20

is genre of writing that criticizes something, such as a person, behaviour, belief, government, or society. satire often emloys irony, humour and hyperbole to make its point

Question 21

stanza

Answer 21

a stanze is a unified group of lines in poetry. such a group may consist of any number of lines. most common are: couplet (2)
tercet (3)
quatrain (4)
sestet (6)
octave (8)

Question 22

symbol

Answer 22

something in a story or poem that litterally is what it is and stands for something else. (rose stand for love)