Poetry Terms

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one

Question 2

alliteration

Answer 2

repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words, taco tuesday

Question 3

allusion

Answer 3

reference, explicit or implicit, ot something in previous literature or history I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s

Question 4

anaphora

Answer 4

repetition of whole lines or repetition of words in beginning

Question 5

apostrophe

Answer 5

figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it was alive and present and could reply (sun, why are you so hot?)

Question 6

assonance

Answer 6

repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words (poetry old, outer dark)

Question 7

connotation

Answer 7

what a word suggests beyond its basic definition, a words overtones of meaning (chick, retarded)

Question 8

consonance

Answer 8

repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of acented syllables or important words (took, plaque, thicker)

Question 9

denotation

Answer 9

basic definition or diction meaning of a word

Question 10

epiphora

Answer 10

last few words or whole lines repeat

Question 11

euphony

Answer 11

smooth, pleasant sounding choice and arrangements of sounds (Silence and stealth of days!)

Question 12

figurative langue

Answer 12

language employing figures of speech, language that cannot be taken literally or only literally (the sky misses the sun at night.)

Question 13

foot

Answer 13

how you count in poetry, basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse

Question 14

free verse

Answer 14

nonmetrical verse, arranged in lines, may be more or less rhythmical, but has no fixed metrical patter or expectation (any poem with no rules)

Question 15

hyperbole

Answer 15

exaggeration (I’ve told you a million times)

Question 16

irony (all forms)

Answer 16

a situation, or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy (verbal irony, dramatic irony, irony of situation) A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.

Question 17

meter

Answer 17

regularized rhythem, arrangment of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time. Kind of rhythm we can tap our foot to.

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended

IF we / SHAD ows / HAVE of / FEND ed
THINK but / THIS and / ALL is / MEND ed

Question 18

metonymy

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figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience

Question 19

Paradox

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a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements (I’m nobody.)

Question 20

prose

Answer 20

non-metrical language (oposite of verse)

Question 21

rhythm

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any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound

Roses are red
Violets are blue

Question 22

satire

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kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bring about reform

“I’ve been sitting here watching Brittney Spear News for 12 hours, she really needs to get a life”

Question 23

synecdoche

Answer 23

figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole

Question 24

homophone

Answer 24

spells differently, same sound (here and hear)