Poetry

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of the same first letter sounds in 2 or more words. (he bravely breache’d his boiling bloody breast)

Question 2

Apostrophe

Answer 2

to turn away from the general audience of a work or to address a specific group/ personal thing. Often proceeded by or or oh. (oh you gods)

Question 3

assonance

Answer 3

repetition of a vowel sounds in stressed syllables. (mellow wedding bells)

Question 4

blank verse

Answer 4

iambic perameer without rhyme. Verse from closest to the natural rhythms of english speech

Question 5

consonance

Answer 5

repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of texts -sound not always the letter- middle end or beginning (grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt

Question 6

connotation

Answer 6

meaning implied by a word apart from what it actually means (hes such a dog (shameless/ dog)

Question 7

conplet

Answer 7

2 line of a verse that follow eachother that rhyme and have the same meter (‘tis education forms the common mind
Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined)

Question 8

Denotation

Answer 8

dictionary definition. objective meaning. Makes sentence clearer

Question 9

Diction

Answer 9

Specific choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, figurative language which combines to create meaning

Question 10

dissonance

Answer 10

Deliberate use of inharmonious words

Question 11

enjambment

Answer 11

when a sentence “steps over” a lone break into the next line without pause (and yet, by heaven, I think my lobe as rare
As she believed with false compare)

Question 12

Euphemism

Answer 12

mild or indirect wordds replacing harsher or more direct words (“he passed away”)

Question 13

extended metaphor

Answer 13

when a comparison between two unlike things continues longer

Question 14

figurative language

Answer 14

describing somethiong as one thing when it is another

Question 15

free verse

Answer 15

lines that do not rhyme, have no fixed meter

Question 16

hyperbole

Answer 16

exaggeration or overstatement used to emphasize a poing rather than to be taken literally

Question 17

imagery

Answer 17

descriptve + sensory words to illustrate a picture for the readers

Question 18

internal rhyme

Answer 18

when middle words and end words whyme with eachother (while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenlt ther ecame a tapping)

Question 19

lyric poetry

Answer 19

combinations of lyrics and poetry. can have no meaning but sounds nice

Question 20

metaphor

Answer 20

indirect comparison between 2 unlike things (all the world’s a stage)

Question 21

meter

Answer 21

sound a poem males based on patterns of syllables and stresses

Question 22

narrative poetry

Answer 22

poem that tells a story

Question 23

paradox

Answer 23

statement that is self contradictory

Question 24

personification

Answer 24

figurative language is which inanimate objects or abstract concepts are given human qualities

Question 25

pun

Answer 25

play on words. Words with similar or identical sounds with different meaning

Question 26

quatrain

Answer 26

4 lines with rhyme

Question 27

repetition

Answer 27

using something more than once

Question 28

rhyme

Answer 28

repetition of the same sound in words or lines

Question 29

rhyme scheme

Answer 29

pattern of end rhymes in a poem or stanza

Question 30

simile

Answer 30

direct comparison between 2 unlike things by using like, as, than, or seems (my love is like a red, red rose)

Question 31

slant rhyme/ close rhyme/ approximate rhyme

Answer 31

words that sound similar but dont fully rhyme (mother and father)

Question 32

speaker

Answer 32

narrative voice/ voice that speaks behind the scenes

Question 33

Stanza

Answer 33

structure in a poem. Group of lines seperated by a blank space (a paragraph)

Question 34

syntax

Answer 34

how words from different parts of speech are put together (subject+verb+object--to--- verb+object+subject) (she was beautiful) (beautiful was she)

Question 35

theme

Answer 35

central meaning or dominant idea in a work

Question 36

tone

Answer 36

attitude in which an author expressed his idea, seriousness, nostalgia, etc.