Literary Terms 3

Question 1

line

Answer 1

basic unit of poetry; consists of a word or row of words; measured by # of feet they contain

Question 2

stanza

Answer 2

group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song; separated by a line or space

Question 3

speaker

Answer 3

voice that communicates with the reader of a poem

Question 4

figure of speech

Answer 4

expressions that are not literally true, but have some truth

Question 5

simile

Answer 5

uses like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things

Question 6

metaphor

Answer 6

comparison b/w two seemingly unlike things

Question 7

extended metaphor

Answer 7

compares two unlike things in carious ways through a paragraph, stanza, or entire selection

Question 8

personification

Answer 8

an animal, object, force of nature, or idea that is given human characteristics

Question 9

imagery

Answer 9

language that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses; creates an emotional response from the reader

Question 10

alliteration

Answer 10

repetition of consonant sounds generally at the beginning of words; emphasize, reinforce, create musical effect

Question 11

consonance

Answer 11

repetition of consonant sounds typically w/i or at the end of words that don’t rhyme

Question 12

assonance

Answer 12

repetition of same or similar vowel sounds in words

Question 13

onomatopoeia

Answer 13

use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes

Question 14

rhyme

Answer 14

repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words

Question 15

internal rhyme

Answer 15

occurs w/i in a single line

Question 16

end rhyme

Answer 16

occurs at the end of lines of poetry

Question 17

rhyme scheme

Answer 17

pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or poem

Question 18

rhythm

Answer 18

pattern of beats created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 19

meter

Answer 19

regular pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables that gives a line or poetry a predictable rhythm; unit is a foot

Question 20

foot

Answer 20

unit of measure in a meter

Question 21

ode

Answer 21

long serious lyric poem that is elevated n tone and style; celebrate a person, event, or even a power

Question 22

elegy

Answer 22

a serious poem mourning a death or great loss

Question 23

lyric poem

Answer 23

expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts and feeling; short and musical; emphasis is on an experience of emotion

Question 24

free verse

Answer 24

poetry that has no fixed pattern or meter, rhyme, line length or stanza arrangement

Question 25

sonnet

Answer 25

lyric poem of 15 lines, typically written in iambic pentameter; usually follows strict patterns

Question 26

analogy

Answer 26

comparison that shows similarities b/w two things that are otherwise dissimilar

Question 27

ballad

Answer 27

a musical narrative song or poem that recounts an exciting or dramatic episode

Question 28

connotation

Answer 28

suggested or implied meanings associated w/ a word beyond its dictionary definition

Question 29

couplet

Answer 29

two consecutive lines of rhymed verse that work as a unit

Question 30

inversion

Answer 30

the reversal of usual word order in a prose sentence or line of poetry; used to maintain rhyme scheme or meter

Question 31

epic

Answer 31

long narrative that recounts, in formal lang., the exploits of a larger than life hero

Question 32

parallelism

Answer 32

use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences, that have similar grammatical form

Question 33

denotation

Answer 33

the literal, dictionary meaning of a word

Question 34

iambic pentameter

Answer 34

specific poetic meter in which each line has five feet and each foot consists of an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable

Question 35

juxtaposition

Answer 35

placement of two or more distinct things side by side in order to contrast or compare them