Poetry Terms

Question 1

Creative writing using rhythm, structure, and emotion.

Answer 1

Poetry

Question 2

Comparing ideas to show creativity or deeper meaning.

Answer 2

Figurative language

Question 2

Brief reference to something famous.

Answer 2

allusion

Question 3

Talking to someone or something not present.

Answer 3

Apostrophe

Question 4

Extreme exaggeration.

Answer 4

Hyperbole

Question 4

Balancing opposites in a line.

Answer 4

Antithesis

Question 4

Combining two opposite terms.

Answer 4

Oxymoron

Question 5

Direct comparison (without “like” or “as”).

Answer 5

Metaphor

Question 6

Replacing a name with something closely related.

Answer 6

Metonymy

Question 7

Giving human traits to non-human things.

Answer 7

Personification

Question 8

Comparing using “like” or “as”.

Answer 8

Simile

Question 9

Language that appeals to the senses.

Answer 9

Imagery

Question 10

Repetition of starting sounds.

Answer 10

Alliteration

Question 11

Repetition of vowel sounds.

Answer 11

Assonance

Question 12

Harsh, jarring sounds.

Answer 12

Cacophony

Question 13

Repeating consonants at the end of words.

Answer 13

Consonance

Question 13

Repeated line/section in a song or poem.

Answer 13

Chorus

Question 14

Pleasant, smooth sounds.

Answer 14

Euphony

Question 15

Unit of rhythm in poetry.

Answer 15

Foot

Question 16

10-syllable lines with alternating unstressed/stressed.

Answer 16

Lambic Pentameter

Question 16

The “music” of the poem.

Answer 16

Melody/ Rhythm

Question 17

Repeating sentence structure or grammar.

Answer 17

Parallelism

Question 18

Four-line stanza.

Answer 18

Quatrain

Question 19

Two rhyming lines.

Answer 19

Rhyming couplet

Question 19

Repeated word/phrase randomly.

Answer 19

Repetend

Question 20

Order of rhymes in a poem.

Answer 20

Rhyme scheme

Question 21

Group of lines in a poem.

Answer 21

Stanza

Question 22

Rhyming poem telling a story.

Answer 22

Ballad

Question 23

Unrhymed poetry with structure.

Answer 23

Blank verse

Question 24

Poem of mourning.

Answer 24

Elegy

Question 25

Long poem about heroic deeds.

Answer 25

Epic

Question 26

Poem without rhyme or meter.

Answer 26

Free verse

Question 27

3-line poem (5-7-5 syllables).

Answer 27

Haiku

Question 28

Song-like, emotional poem.

Answer 28

Lyric

Question 29

Tells a story.

Answer 29

Narrative

Question 30

Formal poem praising a subject.

Answer 30

Ode

Question 31

14-line poem with rhyme (abab cdcd efef gg).

Answer 31

Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 32

14-line poem with octave/sestet and variation in rhyme.

Answer 32

Italian Sonnet