Poetry Terms

Question 1

Repeating initial consonant sounds

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

Referring to something familiar to ready

Answer 2

Allusion

Question 3

Brief pointed witty saying

Answer 3

Aphorism

Question 4

Absent or dead person is addressed

Answer 4

Apostrophe

Question 5

Repeating vowel sounds

Answer 5

Assonance

Question 6

Poem telling story in verse form, sentimental/romantic

Answer 6

Ballad

Question 7

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Answer 7

Blank verse

Question 8

Harsh discordant sound in literature

Answer 8

Cacophony

Question 9

Timeworn overused saying

Answer 9

Cliche

Question 10

Near rhyme

Answer 10

Consonance

Question 11

Pair of rhymed lines

Answer 11

Couplet

Question 12

Poem w/convo b/w speaker & implied listener

Answer 12

Dramatic monologue

Question 13

Poem lamenting loss of dead

Answer 13

Elegy

Question 14

Line w/pause at end, often , .

Answer 14

End stopped line

Question 15

Long narrative poem telling deeds of a hero

Answer 15

Epic

Question 16

Short witty verse in prose

Answer 16

Epigram

Question 17

Combining words to have a pleasant sound

Answer 17

Euphony

Question 18

Story/poem w/moral lesson

Answer 18

Fable

Question 19

Words/expressions readers aren’t supposed to take literally

Answer 19

Figurative language

Question 20

Kinds of non-literal devices

Answer 20

Figures of speech

Question 21

Poetry w/o rhyme scheme, meter, or form

Answer 21

Free verse

Question 22

Japanese poem, 5 7 5

Answer 22

Haiku

Question 23

Extreme exagerration

Answer 23

Hyperbole

Question 24

Language appealing to 5 senses

Answer 24

Imagery

Question 25

One of two types of poetry, expresses thoughts & opinions

Answer 25

Lyric poem

Question 26

Comparing two unlike things w/o using like or as

Answer 26

Metaphor

Question 27

Using something very closely related to stand for the word you mean

Answer 27

Metonomy

Question 28

Feeling created by story

Answer 28

Mood

Question 29

One of two main types of poetry, tells a story

Answer 29

Narrative poem

Question 30

Extreme form of realism, focusing on sordid side of life

Answer 30

Naturalism

Question 31

Eight lined stanza

Answer 31

Octave

Question 32

Formal lengthy poem w/elevated style

Answer 32

Ode

Question 33

Using words to imitate sound they describe

Answer 33

Onomotopeia

Question 34

Image of contradictory terms

Answer 34

Oxymoron

Question 35

Seeming contradiction which actually reveals the truth

Answer 35

Paradox

Question 36

Giving non human things human characteristics

Answer 36

Personification

Question 37

Arranging words in lines often w/rhythm & meter

Answer 37

Poem

Question 38

Ordinary form of written/spoken language

Answer 38

Prose

Question 39

Play on words cuz 2 words have similar sound

Answer 39

Pun

Question 40

Four line stanza

Answer 40

Quatrain

Question 41

Attempt to portray life as it really is w/o sentimentalizing it

Answer 41

Realism

Question 42

Repeating similar sounding words in a poem

Answer 42

Rhyme

Question 43

Pattern of rhyme

Answer 43

Rhyme scheme

Question 44

Line has no natural end, keeps going

Answer 44

Run on line

Question 45

Writing which ridicules some aspect of behavior

Answer 45

Satire

Question 46

Comparison b/w unlike things w/o using like or as

Answer 46

Simile

Question 47

Arranging 2+ lines of poetry w/regular patterns of length, rhythm, rhyme

Answer 47

Stanza

Question 48

Something that has a meaning itself but stands for something else too

Answer 48

Symbol

Question 49

Using a part to represent the whole

Answer 49

Synecdoche

Question 50

Saying less than what you mean

Answer 50

Understatement

Question 51

Line of poetry

Answer 51

Verse

Question 52

Unaccented, accented, unaccented

Answer 52

Amphribraic

Question 53

Unaccented, unaccented, accented

Answer 53

Anapestic

Question 54

Accented, unaccented, unaccented

Answer 54

Dactylic

Question 55

Basic unit of rhythm

Answer 55

Foot

Question 56

Unaccented, accented

Answer 56

Iambic

Question 57

Number of times a foot is repeated in a line of poetry

Answer 57

Meter

Question 58

Musical quality created by syllables

Answer 58

Rhythm

Question 59

Analyzing rhythm/meter poem

Answer 59

Scansion

Question 60

Accented, accented

Answer 60

Spondaic

Question 61

Accented, unaccented

Answer 61

Trochaic