Poetry Test: Scansion And Terminology

Question 1

A unit of meter

Answer 1

Foot

Question 2

A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry.

Answer 2

Meter

Question 3

Unstressed-stressed pattern

Answer 3

Iambic

Question 4

Stressed- unstressed

Answer 4

Trochaic

Question 5

Unstressed-unstressed-stressed

Answer 5

Anapestic

Question 6

Stressed-unstressed-unstressed

Answer 6

Dactylic

Question 7

Unstressed- unstressed

Answer 7

Pyrrhic

Question 8

Stressed-stressed

Answer 8

Spondaic

Question 9

1

Answer 9

Monometer

Question 10

2

Answer 10

Dimeter

Question 11

3

Answer 11

Trimeter

Question 12

4

Answer 12

Tetrameter

Question 13

5

Answer 13

Pentameter

Question 14

6

Answer 14

Hexameter

Question 15

7

Answer 15

Septameter

Question 16

8

Answer 16

Octameter

Question 17

9

Answer 17

Nanometer

Question 18

10

Answer 18

Decameter

Question 19

Verse with end rhyme and a regular meter.

Answer 19

Rhymed verse

Question 20

Lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme.

Answer 20

Blank verse

Question 21

Lines that do not have a regular meter and don’t contain rhyme.

Answer 21

Free verse

Question 22

Occurs when one syllable of a word rhymes with another word.

Answer 22

Masculine rhyme

Question 23

Occurs when the last two syllables of a word rhyme with another word.

Answer 23

Feminine rhyme

Question 24

Occurs when the last three syllables of a word or line rhyme.

Answer 24

Triple rhyme

Question 25

The use of a word to represent or imitate natural sound.

Answer 25

Onomatopoeia

Question 26

The similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words.

Answer 26

Assonance

Question 27

The repetition of consonant sounds within a line of verse.

Answer 27

Consonance

Question 28

The repetition of one or more phrases or lines at intervals in a poem.

Answer 28

Refrain

Question 29

The reiterating of a word or phrase within a poem.

Answer 29

Repetition

Question 30

The technique of mentioning a part of something to represent a whole. “All hands on deck”

Answer 30

Synecdoche

Question 31

Is the substitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated with. “The White House has decided.”

Answer 31

Metonymy

Question 32

A narrative description having a second meaning beneath the surface one.

Answer 32

Allegory

Question 33

An exaggeration for the sake of emphasis and is not to be taken literally.

Answer 33

Overstatement

Question 34

A balancing or contrasting of one term against another.

Answer 34

Antithesis

Question 35

A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements.

Answer 35

Paradox

Question 36

The addressing of someone or something usually not present, as though present.

Answer 36

Apostrophe

Question 37

Usually a poem that mourns death of an individual, the absence of something deeply loved, or the transience of mankind.

Answer 37

Elegy

Question 38

An exalted, rapturous lyric poem written about a dignified subject.

Answer 38

Ode

Question 39

An element of a story that’s out of its time frame.

Answer 39

Anachronism

Question 40

A word or phrase to which a pronoun refers.

Answer 40

Antecedent

Question 41

A terse statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle.

Answer 41

Aphorism