Poetry

Question 1

Meter

Answer 1

Measured arrangement of accents and syllables in poetry.

Question 2

Full rhyme

Answer 2

When the two rhyming words begin with a different consonant sound, then have the same vowel sound, and end with the same consonant sound (night/delight).

Question 3

Half rhyme

Answer 3

When only single consonant or vowel sounds are the same (consonance/assonance).

Question 4

End-rhyme

Answer 4

Rhyme at the end of line.

Question 5

Internal rhyme

Answer 5

Rhyme within a line.

Question 6

Rhyme pattern

Answer 6

Such as continuous (aaaa bbbb), rhyming couplets (aa bb cc), alternating rhyme.

Question 7

Alliteration

Answer 7

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Links words and their meanings through the similar sound, mimics sounds.

Question 8

Sibilant sounds

Answer 8

Repeated ‘s’ and ‘sh’ sounds, can be soft or sinister.

Question 9

Plosive sounds

Answer 9

‘b,’ ‘p,’ ‘d,’ and ‘t’ sounds. The effect is sharp and abrupt.

Question 10

Liquid sounds

Answer 10

‘l’ sounds. Can create a sense of quick light movement.

Question 11

Fricative sounds

Answer 11

‘f,’ ‘v,’ and ‘th’ sounds. Can create an airy effect.

Question 12

Onomatopoeia

Answer 12

When the sound of word when spoken imitates the sound to which it refers.

Question 13

Stanza

Answer 13

The units into which the lines of a poem are separated.

Question 14

Couplet

Answer 14

Stanza comprising of two lines of verse with various rhyme patterns.

Question 15

Tercet

Answer 15

Stanza comprising of three lines of verse with various rhyme patterns.

Question 16

Quatrain

Answer 16

Stanza comprising four lines of verse with various rhyme patterns.

Question 17

Quintet

Answer 17

Stanza comprising five lines of verse with various rhyme patterns.

Question 18

Sestet

Answer 18

Stanza comprising six lines of verse with various rhyme patterns.

Question 19

Octet

Answer 19

Stanza comprising eight lines of verse with various rhyme patterns.

Question 20

Refrain

Answer 20

A phrase, line, or group of lines repeated at intervals throughout the poem.

Question 21

Caesura

Answer 21

When punctuation is used to create a pause within a line.

Question 22

Line length

Answer 22

Can be governed by the meter (or intentional departures from the meter). Line length contributes to the poem’s visual appearance, and can be used to draw visual emphasis or create a visual pattern.

Question 23

End-stopped lines

Answer 23

Lines where a sentence comes to close at the end of the line, thus causing a pause in the rhythm. Can prompt the reader to dwell on individual words.

Question 24

Enjambment

Answer 24

Where the sentences carries over into the next line. Enjambment diminishes pauses and thus speeds up rhythm.

Question 25

Allusion

Answer 25

A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.

Question 26

Antithesis

Answer 26

When words and phrases with opposite meaning and implications are used to achieve contrast.

Question 27

Hyperbole

Answer 27

Deliberate exaggeration for effect.

Question 28

Irony

Answer 28

Expressing an implied meaning that is different to the meaning directly stated.

Question 29

Metaphor

Answer 29

A direct comparison.

Question 30

Personification

Answer 30

A figure of speech in which an abstraction, thing, or non-human form is described as though it were human.

Question 31

Simile

Answer 31

An indirect comparison made with ‘like’ or ‘as.’

Question 32

Symbolism

Answer 32

When an object contained within the fictional world of the text represents another abstract meaning.

Question 33

Understatement

Answer 33

Deliberate downplaying of a thing’s importance or significance.

Question 34

Zoomorphism

Answer 34

The attribution of animal characteristics to an inanimate thing.

Question 35

Sensory imagery

Answer 35

Language and description that invokes the senses (visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, kinaesthetic).

Question 36

Synaesthesia

Answer 36

When the invocation of one sense is described as simultaneously invoking another.

Question 37

Sonnet

Answer 37

Usually a single stanza of fourteen lines or an octet followed by a sestet. Written in iambic pentameter and deals with loft subject matter.

Question 38

Ballad

Answer 38

A song which tells a story. Usually contains quatrains.

Question 39

Lyric

Answer 39

Short, non-narrative poem in which a single speaker presents a state of mind or emotional state.

Question 40

Free verse

Answer 40

Verse which does not rhyme and which has lines of varying lengths according to the ebb and flow of the poet’s emotions.