Poetic terms to know inverse

Question 1

Basic rhythmic structure of a verse, made up of feet

Answer 1

Meter

Question 2

Analysis of a poem’s metrical structure

Answer 2

Scansion

Question 3

Most common meter in English poetry- sequence of five iambic fee each consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

Answer 3

Iambic Pentameter

Question 4

The inverse of iambic meter:

Answer 4

Trochaic Meter

Question 5

Words that sound good together (musical)

Answer 5

Euphony

Question 6

Sound that grate, annoy, or create a sense of distaste

Answer 6

Cacophony

Question 7

Imitates the sound it refers to

Answer 7

Onomatopoeia

Question 8

Language that appeals directly to one of the senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell, or taste

Answer 8

Imagery

Question 9

When description of 1 kind of sensation produces another

Answer 9

Synesthesia

Question 10

Manner in which something is said; voice the poet projects

Answer 10

Tone

Question 11

Pacing, from slow to fast, and pauses, stops, and starts we perceive as we speak & read the words & lines of a poem

Answer 11

Rhythm

Question 12

Regular sound patterns

Answer 12

Rhyme

Question 13

Most common rhyme- occurs at end of verse lines

Answer 13

End Rhyme

Question 14

The end word rhymes with a word in the middle of the same line or nearby line Ex. (turned the air, prayer)

Answer 14

Internal rhyme

Question 15

Words that look alike but do not sound alike Ex.( blood, food)

Answer 15

Eye Rhyme

Question 16

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Answer 16

Alliteration

Question 17

Repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning of words

Answer 17

Assonance

Question 18

A disruption of harmonic sounds or rhythms

Answer 18

Dissonance

Question 19

rhymed or metrical poetry; a line or stanza of such poetry

Answer 19

Verse

Question 20

unrhymed iambic pentameter (still rhythmic)

Answer 20

Blank Verse

Question 21

Avoids pre-established rhyme, stanza pattern, or meter

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Free Verse

Question 22

Implied comparison of two unlike things

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Metaphor

Question 23

Explicit comparison of two unlike things

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Simile

Question 24

(verbal) saying one thing and meaning another

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Irony

Question 25

an apparently impossible circumstance, situation or condition (Ex. I feel my flesh of rock)

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Paradox

Question 26

Giving a nonbeing the characteristics of a person

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Personification/ Pathetic Fallacy

Question 27

play on words that usually depends on a word having several meanings or soundings like another word with a different meaning

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Pun

Question 28

When one thing is used in place of something closely related to it -- referring to a casino as "the house"

Answer 28

Metonymy

Question 29

Uses part for the whole- "wheels"= car, "hands"= sailors

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Synecdoche

Question 30

Overstatement or exaggeration for effect

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Hyperbole

Question 31

Understatement that downplays for effect -- saying something that was extremely well received "did not go unappreciated" or that WWII was a "pretty little squabble"

Answer 31

Litotes

Question 32

A representation image,event,word, or pattern that stands for something else

Answer 32

Symbol

Question 33

Fixed symbol that definitively represents one other thing-- no room for interpretive license(a form of "other speak")

Answer 33

Allegory

Question 34

A form poem containing 14 lines of iambic pentameter and end rhyme

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Sonnet

Question 35

Long irregular poem lyric in nature and exalted in tone-- meant to praise and honor its subject

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Ode

Question 36

Pair of rhymed lines

Answer 36

Couplet

Question 37

Grouping of three rhymed lines

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Tercet /Triplet

Question 38

Group of four rhymed lines

Answer 38

Quatrain

Question 39

Grouping of verse lines in a poem set off by a space break

Answer 39

Stanza

Question 40

Direct and explicit address either to an absent person or to an abstract or inanimate entity

Answer 40

Apostrophe

Question 41

Idea or claim a poem is aiming to expressing

Answer 41

Theme

Question 42

Reference to art, popular culture, or literature

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Allusion

Question 43

What a word means on a dictionary level

Answer 43

Denotation

Question 44

What a word means on an emotional level

Answer 44

Connotation

Question 45

Word choice

Answer 45

Diction

Question 46

One side of a conversation- one voice the reader "hears"

Answer 46

Dramatic monologue

Question 47

Stream-of-consciousness version of dramatic monologue

Answer 47

Internal dramatic monologue

Question 48

Lines of poetry that have a pause at the end, usually indicated by punctuation

Answer 48

End-stopped lines

Question 49

Lines of poetry that force you to read beyond their end into the beginning of the next line

Answer 49

Run-on lines/ Enjambement

Question 50

Pauses or breaks within a line of poetry

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Caesura

Question 51

Poem that is not set up in recognizable system of individual lines, but rather, in paragraph form

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Prose poem

Question 52

(also pattern poem or emblem poem) poem whose shape is reflective of the poem's subject

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Concrete poem

Question 53

An extended figure of speech that establishes an elaborate parallel between two dissimilar things or situations

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Conceit

Question 54

The admission of conjunctions (and,but, etc) between parts of a sentence

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Asyndeton

Question 55

The use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially when they can be omitted

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Polysyndeton