Poetry Terms

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

the repetition of initial consonance sounds in poetry

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or thing from history

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

The repetition of initial vowel sounds in poetry

Question 4

Autobiography

Answer 4

Form of nonfiction in which a writer tells his/her own life story

Question 5

Biography

Answer 5

A form of nonfiction where an author writes about the life story of another person

Question 6

Connotation

Answer 6

All meanings or emotions suggested by a word

Question 7

Denotation

Answer 7

The literal definition of a word

Question 8

Dialect

Answer 8

Way of speaking; characteristics of a specific area of group of people

Question 9

Diction

Answer 9

An author’s choice of words

Question 10

Epic

Answer 10

Long narrative poem about the deeds of a hero

Question 11

Figure of speech

Answer 11

Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally

Question 12

Flashback

Answer 12

Going back in time for exposition

Question 13

Foil

Answer 13

A character who provides contrast for another character

Question 14

Foreshadowing

Answer 14

The use of clues to tell what is going to happen in the near future

Question 15

Imagery

Answer 15

The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader

Question 16

Irony

Answer 16

The difference between what is expected to happen and what is going to happen

Question 17

Metaphor

Answer 17

Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as though it were something else

Question 18

Nonfiction

Answer 18

Purpose writing that presents and explains ideas

Tells about real people, places, events, and ideas

Question 19

Novel

Answer 19

An extended work of fiction

Question 20

Onomatopoeia

Answer 20

The use of words that imitate sounds

Question 21

Personification

Answer 21

A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human like characteristics

Question 22

Pun

Answer 22

Two words that sound alike but have different meanings

Question 23

Setting

Answer 23

The time and place of the action

Question 24

Symbol

Answer 24

An object that stands for itself as well as representing something else

Question 25

Ballad

Answer 25

A poem that is meant to be sung

Question 26

Dramatic

Answer 26

Conversation between two people in a poem

Question 27

End rhyme

Answer 27

Occurs when the rhyming words come at the end of the lines

Question 28

Free verse

Answer 28

Poetry with no rhyme or meter

Question 29

Haiku

Answer 29

Three-line verse poem

Question 30

Iamb

Answer 30

A foot with one unstressed syllable followed by stressed

Question 31

Lyric

Answer 31

Has musical quality that expresses one thoughts or feelings at speaker

Question 32

Meter

Answer 32

Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 33

Narrative

Answer 33

A poem that tells a story

Question 34

Ode

Answer 34

A lyric poem on a serious subject, usually written in precise structure

Question 35

Quatrain

Answer 35

A stanza consisting of four lines

Question 36

Rhyme

Answer 36

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

Question 37

Rhyme scheme

Answer 37

A pattern of end rhyme in poetry

Question 38

Rhythm

Answer 38

A pattern of beats in a spoken or written language

Question 39

Simile

Answer 39

Comparison of two words using "like" or "as"

Question 40

Slant rhyme

Answer 40

Formation of words with similar but not identical sounds

Question 41

Sonnet

Answer 41

A lyric poem written in iambic pentameter

Question 42

Speaker

Answer 42

A imaginary voice in a poem

Question 43

Stanza

Answer 43

A group of related lines in a poem

Question 44

Tone

Answer 44

The authors attitude toward the subject or reader

Question 45

Blank verse

Answer 45

Unrhymed poetry written in a meter called iambic pentameter

Question 46

Couplet

Answer 46

2 consecutive rhyming lines in poetry

Question 47

Form

Answer 47

Gives structure to the experiences or events it describes

Question 48

Free verse

Answer 48

Poetry with no rhyme or meter

Question 49

Iambic pentameter

Answer 49

A verse written in 5 iams per line Iam - unstressed followed by stressed

Question 50

Mood

Answer 50

Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

Question 51

Narrative poem

Answer 51

Poem that tells a story

Question 52

Paradox

Answer 52

A state,net that contradicts itself because it appears to be not true but actually is

Question 53

Parallelism

Answer 53

The repetition of grammatical structure in order to create a rhythm

Question 54

Refrain

Answer 54

A stanza that is referred back to after every word

Question 55

Repetition

Answer 55

Use of ant element of a language more than once