Poetry

Question 1

The repetition of usually consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

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Alliteration

Question 2

A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literacy, or political significance

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Allusion

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Hyperbole

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An expert that cannot be understood from the meanings of it’s separate words but must be learned as a whole

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Idiom

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Writing about objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our five physical sense

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Imagery

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The presentation of a thing with underemphasis especially in order to achieve a greater effect; understatement

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Meiosis (understatement)

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A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar

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Metaphor

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The forming of a word (as a “buzz” or “hiss”) in imitation of a natural sound

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Onomatopoeia

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Representing a thing or idea as a person in art, literature

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Personfication

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A comparison of two unlike things, often introduced by like or as

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Simile

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Two elements places together that are not only similar but polar opposites

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Antithesis

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Omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses

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Asyndeton

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An inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases

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Chiasmus

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The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning

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Irony

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A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated

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Metonymy

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A statement made in the form of a question with no expectation of an answer

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Rhetorical question

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A figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole

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Synecdoche

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The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner it applies to each in a different sense of makes sense with only one

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Zeugma

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Diction

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Author’s use of words

Question 20

Syntax

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Order of words

Question 21

Denotation

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-Dictionary
-cannot be argued, no emotional response

Question 22

Connotation

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-feeling surrounding a word (emotional response)

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Tone

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Author’s attitude

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Mood

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Reader’s feelings

Question 25

She broke his car and heart

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Syntax

Question 26

Live; parish

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Antithesis

Question 27

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

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Alliteration

Question 28

My being late was a blessing in disguise

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Idiom

Question 29

"ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch" Mercurio after he is mortally wounded by Tybalt

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Meiosis (understatement)

Question 30

Because I could not stop for Death- He kindly stopped for me- The Carriage help but just Ourselves - And immortalized

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Personfication

Question 31

"I came; I saw; I conquered"

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Asyndeton -More abrupt

Question 32

"all for one, and one for all"

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Chiasmus

Question 33

Referenced white house for president

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Metonymy

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Wheels = car

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Synecdoche -a part of another word

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Paradox

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-self contradictory Contrary to what it expected, contains a truth

Question 36

"This double chocolate is so good it's evil"

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Paradox

Question 37

When there is a break at the end of a line (Any punctuation) that is...

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End-stopped

Question 38

The continuation (do not have a punctuation) of a sentence or clause over a line break; the thought runs on from one line to the next

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Enjambment

Question 39

A strong pause within a line, usually occur in the middle of a line

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Caesura

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Effect of Caesura

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Brief silence for thought or reflection during the line, may emphasize certain words

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Effect of enjambment

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Thought is continuing to the following line(s) the reader beings to wonder what's next

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End-stopped effect

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-brief pause -slows reading

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The correspondence between different words, or the ending of words

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Rhyme

Question 44

The repetition of vowel sounds (within the word)

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Assonance

Question 45

The repetition of initial consonant (first letter) sounds in adjacent or nearby sounds

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Alliteration

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The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within sounds

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Consonance

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A 'softer', more inoffensive word or phrase, used as a substitute for one considered too harsh when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing

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Euphemism

Question 48

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

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Anaphora

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"What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil?

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Anaphora

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"Why, then O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create!"

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Oxymoron

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This double chocolate ice cream is wonderfully evil

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Oxymoron

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A play on word

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Pun

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First letter of each line spells out a word or message

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Acrostic poem

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Narrative poem, old form of poetry, usually 4 stanzas

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Ballad

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Does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm -modern poetry -lack of rigid structure

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Free verse

Question 56

-famous poetic form - rigid structure of 14 lines Strict rhyming pattern

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Sonnet

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Pastoral or lyrical poem

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Villanelle

Question 58

3 lines with 5,7,5 syllables

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Haiku

Question 59

3 stanzas, 3 aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc -strict rhyming structure

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Terza Rima

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Formal, often ceremonious lyric - addresses/ celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea - originally would have been sung

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Ode

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- does not contain rhymes - 10 syllables, alternating between unstressed and stressed

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Blank verse

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- long grand narrative - tells the heroic journey of a person or group of people

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Epic

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Silly or whimsical, short humorous story - 5 lines - aa, bb aa rhyming pattern

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Limerick

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Mournful or plaintive poem - funeral song or lament for the dead

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Elegy