Poetry Vocabulary

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

•Compares two things

Question 2

Simile

Answer 2

•A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

Question 3

Personification

Answer 3

•The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

Question 4

Hyperbole

Answer 4

•Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Question 5

Symbolism

Answer 5

•An artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind

Question 6

Alliteration

Answer 6

•The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Question 7

Onomatopoeia

Answer 7

•The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Question 8

Lines

Answer 8

•A line is a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided, which operates on principles which are distinct from and not necessarily coincident with grammatical structures, such as the sentence or single clauses in sentences

Question 9

Stanza

Answer 9

•In poetry, a stanza is a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme. Stanzas in poetry are similar to paragraphs in prose. … The pattern of a stanza is determined by the number of feet in each line and by its metrical or rhyming scheme

Question 10

Connotation

Answer 10

•Connotation refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. Words carry cultural and emotional associations or meanings in addition to their literal meanings or denotations

Question 11

Allusion

Answer 11

•Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers

Question 12

Repitition

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•Repetition is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer. There are several types of repetitions commonly used in both prose and poetry

Question 13

Assonace

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•Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse

Question 14

Anthology

Answer 14

•An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts

Question 15

Rhyme

Answer 15

•Rhyme is a popular literary device in which the repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems or song