Poetry

Question 0

Enjambment

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When the meaning of one line runs into the next line or stanza. No pause at the end of the line.

Question 1

Caesura

Answer 1

A break/pause in the middle of a line

Question 2

Concrete language

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Describing things that can be experienced through the senses

Question 3

Allegory

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Something that looks innocent but has a deep underlying meaning

Question 4

Metonymy

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When a word that merely relates to the object describes the object itself

Ie. the White House said that (instead of the president)

Question 5

Synecdoche

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Uses part of an object to describe the whole

Ie. all hands on deck, fifty head (of cattle)

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Synesthesia

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Using words to engage the senses… Using words that make you think of a smell, taste, colour, etc.

Question 7

Euphemism

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A mild word substituted for one that’s considered to be too harsh

Ie. passes away instead of died

Question 8

Situational irony

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In discrepancy between what exists and what should exist

Ie. landlord is evicted from his home

Question 9

Verbal irony

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In congruency between what is said and what is meant

Ie. saying “well done” angrily to someone who messed up

Question 10

Dramatic irony

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Where the reader shares knowledge of present or future circumstances with the author to which the character is ignorant

Question 11

Pastoral poem

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Individual poems that idealize rural life and landscapes

Question 12

Internal rhyme

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When a word in the middle of the line rhymes with a word at the end of the line

Question 13

End rhyme

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When the rhyme occurs at the end of a line

Question 14

True rhyme

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Initial consonants change but succeeding vowels/consonants remain the same

Ex. Span, van

Question 15

Ear rhyme

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Words that are spelled differently but sound the same

Ex. Here, beer

Question 16

Half rhyme

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Words that come near to rhyming, but don’t because the vowels of the rhyming words are different

Ex. Burned, earned

Question 17

Eye rhyme

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When words are spelled similarity but don’t rhyme

Ie. love, move

Question 18

Identical rhyme

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The use of the same words as a “rhymed” pair, usually for emphasis

Question 19

Poem

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Expresses ideas and relationships. Distinguished by descriptive images & its rhythm and rhyme.

Question 20

Accent

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A word or syllable that is stressed

Question 21

Accentual-syllabic

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It has a certain # of both accents (stressed) and syllables (unstressed) words or syllables

Question 22

Meter

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The beat of the poem

Question 23

Foot

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The counting of accents and syllables

Question 24

Iambic

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Unstressed, stressed | Fast, fluid, easy to communicate

Question 25

Trochaic

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Stressed, unstressed | Slower

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Dactyllic

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Stressed, unstressed, unstressed | Happy lumbering

Question 27

Anapestic

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Unstressed, unstressed, stressed | Fastest

Question 28

Names for the 7 main types of lengths in poems:

Answer 28

``` Monometer - one foot Dimeter - two feet Trimeter - three free Tetrameter - four feet Pentameter - five feet Hexameter - six feet Heptameter - seven feet ```

Question 29

7 main types of stanzas:

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``` Couplet - two lines triplet - three lines Quatrain - four lines Quintet - five lines Sestet - six lines Septet - seven lines Octet - eight lines ```

Question 30

Consonance

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A type of half-rhyme where the consonants agree but the vowels do not. Ex. Lick, luck

Question 31

Assonance

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A type of half-rhyme where the vowels agree but the consonants do not Ex. Seat, weak

Question 32

Italian/Petrarchan sonnet

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First 8 lines outline problem, last 6 lines outline solution

Question 33

Shakespearean sonnet

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3 or 4 line groups outlining problem, with a couplet at the end outlining solution

Question 34

Religious allusions

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Reference to someone/something from the Bible or other religious texts

Question 35

Classical allusions

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Reference to something from classical Greece, Rome, or Egypt

Question 36

Literary allusions

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Reference to something in literature

Question 37

Historical allusions

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Reference to someone of historical importance

Question 38

Parallelism

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Repetition of specific patterns (like phrases and clauses)

Question 39

Apostrophe

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Direct address to an absent person or a non-human entity

Question 40

Ambiguity

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Two possible meanings for the same word or idea

Question 41

Pun

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Words with 2 meanings used for humour

Question 42

Double-entendre

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Pun where one meaning has a sexual connotation

Question 43

Satire

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Ridiculing human follies in an amusing way

Question 44

Epic

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Long narrative poem involving an epic hero

Question 45

Ode

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Serious lyric poem with elaborate structure.

Question 46

Sacred lyrics

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Hymns

Question 47

Elegy

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Poem expressing mourning or lamentation

Question 48

Descriptive poetry

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Describes something using sense images

Question 49

Humorous poetry

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Purely for entertainment, usually nonsensical

Question 50

Concrete poetry

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Visual poetry, like a poem in the shape of an apple written about an apple

Question 51

Rhyme scheme

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Pattern of rhyming lines