Unseen Poetry terms

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines

Question 3

Anadiplosis

Answer 3

Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.

Question 4

Allusion

Answer 4

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

Question 5

Hyperbole

Answer 5

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Question 6

Sibilance

Answer 6

A type of alliteration in which the “s” sound is repeated.

Question 7

Sapphic meter

Answer 7

Found in quatrains where the first 3 lines have 11 syllables and the 4th has 5

Question 8

In media res

Answer 8

a piece of writing that begins in the middle of the action

Question 9

Internal rhyme

Answer 9

A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line

Question 10

Irony

Answer 10

A contrast between expectation and reality

Question 11

Tercet

Answer 11

Stanza containing three lines

Question 12

Quatrain

Answer 12

Stanza containing 4 lines

Question 13

Mesodiplosis

Answer 13

Repetition of words in the middle of successive clauses

Question 14

Zoomorphism

Answer 14

Giving a person animal qualities.

Question 15

Ekphrasis

Answer 15

The poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words

Question 16

Verisimilitude

Answer 16

the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable

Question 17

Paradox

Answer 17

A seemingly contradictory statement such as “you have to be cruel to be kind”

Question 18

Polyptoton

Answer 18

Repetition of a word but in different forms e.g. “sleep” “sleeping”

Question 19

Phallic imagery

Answer 19

When language alludes to the male sexual anatomy

Question 20

Pleonasm

Answer 20

The use of more than one word or phrase with the same meaning

Question 21

Passive voice

Answer 21

The subject of the sentence receives the action.

Question 22

Parallelism

Answer 22

The repetition of a similar structure across a few clauses or phrase

Question 23

Neologism

Answer 23

A newly created word

Question 24

Plosives

Answer 24

Words beginning with b, d, p, k, g, t which can imply a certain mood of attitude to a sentence.

Question 25

Diacope

Answer 25

Repetition broken up by one or more intervening words

Question 26

Deixis

Answer 26

Words that are context-bound where meaning depends on who is being referred to, where something is happening or when it is happening.

Question 27

Anachronism

Answer 27

something out of the proper time

Question 28

Colloquialism

Answer 28

A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing (y'all, ain't)

Question 29

Epistrophe

Answer 29

repetition of the same word or groups of words at the ends of successive clauses

Question 30

Interrogative

Answer 30

Asks a question

Question 31

Figurative language

Answer 31

Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.

Question 32

Pastoral

Answer 32

Literature regarding the pulchritude of country/agricultural life

Question 33

Iambic pentameter

Answer 33

a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable

Question 34

Euphemism

Answer 34

An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant

Question 35

Hyperbaton

Answer 35

Reversal of the normal word order

Question 36

Free verse

Answer 36

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm

Question 37

Oxymoron

Answer 37

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

Question 38

Volta

Answer 38

A point of change in a poem

Question 39

Caesura

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A strong pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.

Question 40

Modal auxiliary verb

Answer 40

A helping verb (e.g., can, could, may, might) that indicates ability, intention, or probability.Modal auxiliary verb

Question 41

Enjambment

Answer 41

when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning

Question 42

Assonance

Answer 42

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 43

Ode

Answer 43

A lyric stanza that usually addresses an event or individual (usually emotive)

Question 44

Jargon

Answer 44

special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.

Question 45

Haiku

Answer 45

A japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables

Question 46

Meter

Answer 46

a regular repeating rhythm, divided for convenience into feet.

Question 47

Metonymy

Answer 47

a figure of speech in which something is represented by another thing that is commonly and often physically associated with it.

Question 48

Imagery

Answer 48

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

Question 49

Pathetic falacy

Answer 49

When weather or setting is used to emphasise the mood or Tone

Question 50

Periphrasis

Answer 50

the use of indirect and circumlocutory speech or writing

Question 51

Pleonasm

Answer 51

use of superfluous or redundant words, often enriching the thought