poetry

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

repetition of consonant sounds
Example: “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping”

Question 2

approx. rhyme

Answer 2

when two words rhyme, but not exactly
ex. hollow & mellow

Question 3

connotation

Answer 3

emotional feeling associated w. a word

Question 4

couplet

Answer 4

two lines which rhyme

Question 5

diction

Answer 5

word choice
[formal/standard/Informal - colloquial - slang]

Question 6

end rhyme

Answer 6

rhyme @ the end of a line

Question 7

images

Answer 7

words or phrases that appeal to the senses

Question 8

internal rhyme

Answer 8

rhymes w/in a line [NOT at the end]

Question 9

metaphor

Answer 9

figure of speech - comparison w/o like, as, then, etc

Question 10

onomatopoeia

Answer 10

words that imitates sounds [snap, crackle, pOp]

Question 11

personification

Answer 11

giving smth non HUMAN human-like qualities

Question 12

rhyme scheme

Answer 12

pattern of rhymes in a poem

Question 13

simile

Answer 13

figure of speech; comparison using like, as, than, etc

Question 14

stanza

Answer 14

sections of a poem

Question 15

tone

Answer 15

author’s attitude towards an audience/reader

Question 16

stress

Answer 16

emphasis on a word’s syllable

Question 17

rhythm

Answer 17

musical quality that’s created by stress/unstressed syllables.

Question 18

poetic FOOT

Answer 18

at least one stressed syllable

Question 19

meter

Answer 19

a regular pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables

Question 20

scanning

Answer 20

determining meter [putting stress marks in]

Question 21

free verse

Answer 21

a poem that has no pattern/meter

Question 22

iambic meter [+ who uses this meter always?]

Answer 22

[U / ] shakespeare

Question 23

trochaic

Answer 23

[/ U ] opposite of iambic

Question 24

anapestic

Answer 24

[ U U / ]

Question 25

dactylic

Answer 25

[ / U U ]

Question 26

spondee

Answer 26

[ / / ]

Question 27

sonnet

Answer 27

• 14 lines
• iambic pantameter