English Poetic Elements

Question 1

Definition of Form

Answer 1

A poem that is laid out on the page

Question 2

Definition of Sound

Answer 2

The techniques to achieve different sound affects

Question 3

Definition of Figurative Language

Answer 3

Communicates ideas besides the ordinary or literal meaning of words

Question 4

Definition of Imagery

Answer 4

Describes what is happening/What its like in the scene

Question 5

What is the difference between Prose and Poetry

Answer 5

Prose- The ordinary language that people use in speaking or writing but not in poetry

Poetry- Type of literature in which words are chosen and arranged to create a certain effect

Question 6

What is Comic Relief

Answer 6

When something dark happens in the story but comic relief lightens up the mood

Question 7

What is Foil

Answer 7

two characters that are opposite of each other but contrasts/emphasize each other

Question 8

What is Tragedy

Answer 8

When a main character who is noble dies

Question 9

What is a Speaker

Answer 9

The person that relates the ideas of the poem

Narrator:Speaker

Question 10

What is Iambic Pentameter

Answer 10

10 syllabus
5 unstressed syllabus and 5 stressed syllabus

Question 11

What is Alliteration

Answer 11

A repetition of sounds at the beginning of words

Question 12

What makes a Theme Statement

Answer 12

• Universal
• A sentence
• 3rd person
• Debatable

Question 13

What does NOT make a Theme Statement

Answer 13

• Idiom
• Question
• Characters names
• Lessons/Preaching
• Should/must
• uses pronouns

Question 14

What is a Soliloquy

Answer 14

When a character ´ s thoughts/ideas are told to the audience but not to others

Question 15

What is an Aside

Answer 15

When a character is off to the stage and gives the audience their remark but are unheard by other s in the play

Question 16

What is a Meter

Answer 16

Rhythmic Pattern

Question 17

What is the List of Prejudice and the Bias

Answer 17

Racism-Ethnicity, Sexism-gender, Ableism-Ability, Anti-Sentism-Jewish ancestory/Faith, Homophobia-sexual orientation, Islamphobia- Muslim, Classism-Socio economic status, Ageism-Age

Question 18

What is a Rhyme Scheme

Answer 18

A pattern at the end of the line

Question 19

What are the characteristics of a Sonnet

Answer 19

14 lines that reflects upon a single idea or issue

Question 20

What is Dramatic Irony

Answer 20

When the audience knows something bad but the characters don’t

Question 21

What is the Definition of End Rhyme

Answer 21

At the end of a line

Question 22

What definition of Assonance

Answer 22

Repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words

Question 23

What is the definition Consonance

Answer 23

repetition of consonant sounds within/end of line

Question 24

What’s an metaphor

Answer 24

Comparison between two unlike things that share a common element

Question 25

What’s a Simile

Answer 25

Comparison between two unlike things that share a common element that uses “like” or “as”

Question 26

What’s a Symbol

Answer 26

Something that stands for something beyond itself

Question 27

What’s Internal Rhyme

Answer 27

Within a line

Question 28

What’s Rhyme

Answer 28

Sounds at end of words