terms

Question 1

elegy

Answer 1

a form of poetry in which the poet expresses grief,sadness or loss

Question 2

imagery

Answer 2

visually descriptive of figurative language especially in a literary work

Question 3

anaphora

Answer 3

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of each line

Question 4

repetition

Answer 4

the use of the same word or phrase stanza or number of syllables multiple times

Question 5

petrarchan sonnet

Answer 5

divides 14 lines into 2 sections in an 8 line and 6 line

Question 6

shakespearan sonnet

Answer 6

a fourteen line poem with 3 quarteries and one couplet

Question 7

allusion

Answer 7

a reference to a person, event or literary work outside the poem

Question 8

extended metaphor

Answer 8

metaphor that extends over the cause of multiple lines or stanzas

Question 9

metaphor

Answer 9

a common poetic device where an object in or the subject of a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated

Question 10

synechdoche

Answer 10

figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice vers

Question 11

metonymy

Answer 11

to change the name of something to a different related name

Question 12

slant rhyme

Answer 12

rhyming structures with words that share similar but not exactly perf rhymes

Question 13

end rhyme

Answer 13

when the last syllables within a verse rhyme

Question 14

motif

Answer 14

a recurring image or theme that appears throught the work to reinforce a deeper central meaning

Question 15

ode

Answer 15

a formal often, ceremonious lyric poem that adresses and often celebrates a person place thing or ide

Question 16

pathetic fallasy

Answer 16

the attriubution of human emotion to inanimate objects nature animals and people

Question 17

anthropomorphism

Answer 17

a form of personification in which human qualities are attributed to anything inhuman, usually god animal object or concept

Question 18

catalog

Answer 18

a verse that presents a list of people objects or abstract qualities

Question 19

stanza

Answer 19

a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme

Question 20

couplet

Answer 20

a pair of two consecutive rhyming lines finish when the two lines form a senetence

Question 21

euphony

Answer 21

the pleasing harmonious arrangment of sounds and language

Question 22

cacaphony

Answer 22

a blend of unharmonius sounds used to emphasize disorder harshness or violence

Question 23

meter

Answer 23

the basic rhytmic structure of a verse or lines inverses

Question 24

caesura

Answer 24

a pause between lines of poetry indicated by punctuation

Question 25

understatement

Answer 25

to draw attention to a situation by downplaying the intensity

Question 26

hyperbole

Answer 26

a statement or concept exaggerated to the point of absurdity

Question 27

conceit

Answer 27

a complex unorthodox type of metaphor used in poetry

Question 28

paradox

Answer 28

a literary device that appears to contradict itself but contains some theme of truth or horror

Question 29

dactylic foot

Answer 29

a three syllable foot in which the pattern is one stressed syllable then 2 unstressed

Question 30

trochaic foot

Answer 30

a metrical foot in poetry that consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

Question 31

anapestic foot

Answer 31

2 unstressed to 1 stressed

Question 32

iambic foot

Answer 32

unstressed to a stressted

Question 33

enjabment

Answer 33

describes a continuation of a sentence in the next line stanza or couplet without pausing

Question 34

oxymoron

Answer 34

a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposite meanings

Question 35

onomatopoeia

Answer 35

one way a poet can create sounds in a poem

Question 36

free verse

Answer 36

poetry that does not follow any strict meter or rhyme scheme

Question 37

verbal irony

Answer 37

a statement in which the speakers words do not reflect the speakers intent

Question 38

situational irony

Answer 38

when the opposite of what is expected happens

Question 39

dramatic irony

Answer 39

when the audience is aware of critical information that the characters are unaware of

Question 40

alliteration

Answer 40

the occurence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Question 41

consonance

Answer 41

a resembalance in sound between 2 words or an initial rhyme

Question 42

assonance

Answer 42

repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poem

Question 43

apostrophe

Answer 43

a speech or adress to a person not present or a personified object

Question 44

zeugma

Answer 44

using one word to modify/join two words

Question 45

synthesia

Answer 45

a blending of different senses for dramatic effect

Question 46

internal poem

Answer 46

a single line of poetry with multiple words rhyming or the rhyming words can occur across multiple lines

Question 47

juxtaposition

Answer 47

a literary device contrasts elements side by side to highlight their differences