poetry

Question 1

denotation

Answer 1

a words literal meaning

Question 2

connotation

Answer 2

emotional attachment to a word, I.E “i crawled back to him, not literally crawling, but figuratively

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

a reverence to a popular literary term/event, etc

Question 4

Apostrophe

Answer 4

words which address a non living object (talking to an inanimate object

Question 5

Euphemism

Answer 5

using more neutral terms instead of its harsher base form

Question 6

Hyperbole

Answer 6

big exaggeration

Question 7

imagery

Answer 7

painting an image in the readers head using the five senses

Question 8

metaphor

Answer 8

comparing the likes of two things without using the words “like” and “as”

Question 9

oxymoron

Answer 9

two words that conflict each other, i.e pretty ugly

Question 10

paradox

Answer 10

a statement that may seem un-tree, but upon further inspection is true

Question 11

personification

Answer 11

giving ideas or non human things human characteristics

Question 12

pun

Answer 12

a play on words

Question 13

simile

Answer 13

comparing the likes of two things using the words “like” and “as”

Question 14

symbolism

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an object representing something i.e a heart for love

Question 15

alliteration

Answer 15

the repetition of similar or identical sounds found at the beginning of two or more words, i.e big booty bertha

Question 16

assonance

Answer 16

repetition of vowel sounds near eachother

Question 17

consonance

Answer 17

the repetition of consonant sounds

Question 18

onomatapea

Answer 18

a word the imitates a sound

Question 19

repetition

Answer 19

the repeating of key phrases or words

Question 20

rhyme

Answer 20

deviced used to establish melody

Question 21

end rhyme

Answer 21

rhyme at the end of words on two or more lines

Question 22

internal rhyme

Answer 22

rhyme between 2 words in every line

Question 23

rhyme scheme

Answer 23

a labeling system to used to describe the rhyme pattern in poems

Question 24

descriptive poem

Answer 24

presents a picture of an object, person etc

Question 25

didactic poem

Answer 25

a poem trying to teach a lesson

Question 26

dramatic poem

Answer 26

a poem meant to be read aloud

Question 27

lyric poem

Answer 27

poem that expresses deep personal feeling

Question 28

narrative poem

Answer 28

tells a story with simple direct language, strong sights on plot

Question 29

acroustic poem

Answer 29

a poem with an acronym at down the lines of the stanza

Question 30

ballad

Answer 30

short narrative poem

Question 31

quatrain

Answer 31

4 lined stanza with a rhyme scheme of alternating lines ie (abab)

Question 32

parady

Answer 32

a poem making fun of a serious poem while copying its style

Question 33

sonnet

Answer 33

a lyric poem with 14 lines with a set rhyme scheme

Question 34

stanza

Answer 34

a section/paragraph of a poem

Question 35

analogy

Answer 35

giving a more familiar idea for a complicated topic

Question 36

context

Answer 36

background info needed for story

Question 37

mood

Answer 37

attitude of the poem we feel i.e sad, happy

Question 38

speaker

Answer 38

the person speaking the poem

Question 39

theme

Answer 39

central idea behind the poem

Question 40

tone

Answer 40

the poets attitude toward the poem