Elements Of Poetry + Grammar Rules

Question 1

What is meter?

Answer 1

The counted rhythm in each line.

Question 2

What is a stanza?

Answer 2

The separation of each new idea.

Question 3

What does free verse mean?

Answer 3

A poem with no set meter or rhyme scheme.

Question 4

What is alliteration?

Answer 4

Using the same beginning sound at each word.

Question 5

What is assonance?

Answer 5

Using the same vowel sound in each word.

Question 6

What is consonance?

Answer 6

Using the same ending sound in each word.

Question 7

What is denotation?

Answer 7

You literally mean what you say.

Question 8

What is connotation?

Answer 8

You don’t literally mean what you say.

Question 9

What does onomatopoeia mean?

Answer 9

Using words to imitate sounds?

Question 10

What is personification?

Answer 10

To give an inanimate object human traits.

Question 11

What is synecdoche?

Answer 11

To have a small part represent the whole.

Question 12

What is a metaphor?

Answer 12

To compare two completely different things.

Question 13

What is a simile?

Answer 13

To say something is like another thing.

Question 14

What is apostrophe?

Answer 14

To address some who isn’t present at the time.

Question 15

What is allusion?

Answer 15

Where you use ideas and phrases that need background information to understand.

Question 16

When do you use who?

Answer 16

When you can replace it with he or she.

Question 17

When do you use whom?

Answer 17

When it can be replaced by him or her.

Question 18

When do you use than?

Answer 18

When you’re comparing two things.

Question 19

When do you use then?

Answer 19

When it’s going along a time line?

Question 20

When do you use less?

Answer 20

When you can’t count it or the bulk quantity.

Question 21

When do you use fewer?

Answer 21

When it’s individual, a count noun.

Question 22

When do you use lay?

Answer 22

When it has to be done by an outside object or person.

Question 23

When do you use lie?

Answer 23

When it happens naturally.

Question 24

What is rhyme scheme?

Answer 24

The way the end of each line relates to another line in the rhyme pattern.