Final

Question 1

Rhetoric

Answer 1

The art and scholarly study of effective communication, whether in writing or speech - the art of persuasion

Question 2

Inversion

Answer 2

A change in normal syntax such as putting a verb before its subject. Common in poetry.

Question 3

Syntax

Answer 3

Arrangement of words and phrases. The way words are put together, literally and grammatically.

Question 4

Litotes

Answer 4

A form of understatement in which one negates the contrary of what one means

Question 6

Lineation

Answer 6

How lines in verse are divided

Question 7

Caesura

Answer 7

A short pause within a line of poetry; often but not always signaled by punctuation

Question 8

Metonym

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The name of one thing is used to refer to another associated thing.

Question 9

Synecdoche

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A type of metonym in which the part is used to name or stand in for the whole - like when we refer to manual laborers as hands or say wheels to mean a car

Question 10

Paralysis

Answer 10

The device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing about a subject, as in not to mention their unpaid debts of several million

Question 11

Zeugma

Answer 11

A rhetorical figure in which a word or phrase is made to apply, in different senses, to two or more others.

Question 12

Tenor

Answer 12

The underlying meaning or theme of a metaphor - the thing being described

Question 13

Alliteration

Answer 13

Also called rhyme or initial rhyme, the repetition of the initial sounds of stressed syllables in neighboring words or at short intervals within a line or passage, usually at word beginning

Question 14

Consonance

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The repetition of the same end consonants of words such as boat and night within or at the end of a line, or the words cool and soul

Question 15

Assonance

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The relatively close juxtaposition of the same or similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage, this a vowel rhyme, as in the words, day or fade

Question 16

Cacophony

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Discordant sounds in the jarring juxtaposition of harsh letters or syllables, sometimes inadvertant, but often deliberately used in poetry for effect

Question 17

Dramatic monologue

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A type of sub genre of poetry in which a speaker addresses a silent auditors in a specific situation and setting that is revealed entirely through the speakers words

Question 18

Sonnet

Answer 18

14 lines that follow a set rhyme pattern - about love, time, nature, or deep emotions

Question 19

Ballad

Answer 19

Type of narrative poem originally intended for singing and characterized by features such as stock imagery, a refrain, and simple diction, meter and rhyme scheme