poem terminology to learn

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

Reference to another literary work

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Ambiguity

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Where a word or phrase has more than one meaning

Question 4

Anthropomorphism

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Giving something inanimate human qualities

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Assonance

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Repetition or pattern of the same vowel sounds

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Chremamorphism

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Giving characteristics of an object to a human

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Connotation

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Associated meaning of a word

Question 8

Diction

Answer 8

Usually used to describe the level of formality that a speaker uses

Question 9

Extended metaphor

Answer 9

Metaphor that is developed over serveral lines sentences or even an entire piece of writing

Question 10

Hyperbole

Answer 10

Exaggerated statement

Question 11

Imagery

Answer 11

Visually descriptive language

Question 12

Metaphor

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Saying one thing is another

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Oxymoron

Answer 13

Two terms appear next to eachother that contradict each other (“bittersweet” something both happy and sad)

Question 15

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 15

Weather to create mood

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Tone

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The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work

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Volt

Answer 17

Turning point in a sonnet

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Zoomorphism

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Giving a human animal like qualities

Question 19

Personification

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Something non- human behaving in a human way

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Pun/paronomasia

Answer 20

A play on word

Question 21

Satire

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The use of humour or irony to mock ridicule or criticise

Question 22

Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole

Question 23

Anapaest

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Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one

Question 24

Anaphora

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Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line

Question 25

Caesura

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piece of punctuation in the middle of a line creating a pause in the rhythm

Question 26

Dactyl

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A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones

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Elision

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The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry

Question 28

End- stopped line

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A line ending in a full pause

Question 29

Enjabment

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A sentence which continues with no punctuation into the line below

Question 30

Foot

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A metrical u it composed of stressed syllables and unstressed syllables

Question 31

Half- rhyme

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An imperfect rhyme where the ending consonant sound of a word is the same as another

Question 32

Juxtaposition

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Two or more contrasted ideas place side by side

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Meter

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The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems

Question 34

Parallelism

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The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words phrases or clauses

Question 35

Rhyming couplet

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Two lines of poetry that rhyme and have the same meter

Question 36

Sestet

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A six line unit verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem

Question 37

Quatrain

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A four line stanza in a poem

Question 38

Refrain

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A phrase line or group of lines which is repeated

Question 39

Allegory

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A symbolic narrative which often takes the form of a story where the characters represent moral qualities

Question 40

Ballad

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A narrative poem written in four line stanzas characterised by swift action and narrated in a direct style

Question 41

Blank verse

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Non-rhyming, lines written in iambic pentameter

Question 42

Dramatic monologue

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A type of poem in which a speaker addresses an internal listener or the reader

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Elegy

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Poem about a dead person or thing

Question 44

Epic

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A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero

Question 45

Free verse

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Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme

Question 46

Lyric

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A poem that expresses personal and emotional feelings

Question 47

Ode

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A poem written in praise or celebration or a person thing or event

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Pastoral

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A poem about nature or simple country life

Question 49

Shakespearean sonnet

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Usually 14 lines which are formed by three quatrains with a rhyming couplet for the last two lines

Question 50

Sonnet

Answer 50

A fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter and regular rhyme scheme