Poetic languages

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

a comparison using “like or as”

Question 2

metaphor

Answer 2

a direct comparison from one thing to another

Question 3

personification

Answer 3

giving human characters to non human things

Question 4

onomatopoeia

Answer 4

words that describe sounds “bang”

Question 5

alliteration

Answer 5

repetition of constant sounds

Question 6

plosive

Answer 6

harsh “b,p,t,d” sounds

Question 7

sibilance

Answer 7

repeated “s” sounds

Question 8

oxymoron

Answer 8

when 2 contradictory words are placed together

Question 9

assonance

Answer 9

repetition of vowel sounds

Question 10

semantic field

Answer 10

words relating to the same topic or theme

Question 11

anaphora

Answer 11

repetition of words or phases at the start of the poem

Question 12

hyperbole

Answer 12

exaggeration

Question 13

irony

Answer 13

when something has a differnt meaning to what you think

Question 14

metonymy

Answer 14

a related item which replaces the original word or phrase

Question 15

pathetic fallacy

Answer 15

when weather represents the mood

Question 16

cliche

Answer 16

an overused phrase

Question 17

speaker

Answer 17

the voice of the poem

Question 18

narrative perspective

Answer 18

1st 2nd 3rd person

Question 19

free verse

Answer 19

non rhyming non rhymical

Question 20

sonnet

Answer 20

a poem with 14 lines wrote in Iambic pentanmeter

Question 21

blank verse

Answer 21

a verse comprised of unrhymed lines

Question 22

volta

Answer 22

a turning point during an argument or thought in the poem

Question 23

quatrain

Answer 23

4 line stanza

Question 24

stanza

Answer 24

a group of lines separated from the rest of the poem

Question 25

emjambment

Answer 25

a continuation of a line to the next with no punctuation

Question 26

caesura

Answer 26

a stop or pause in a line of poetry caused by punctuation

Question 27

end stopped

Answer 27

a line of poetry ending with punctuation which creates a pause