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Poetry Terminology
Matching poetry terms to definitions
Term | Definition |
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Enjambement | What is the term for a line of poetry which is not end-stopped? |
Hyperbole | What term refers to a figure of speech which is a gross exaggeration? |
Gustatory | What type of imagery appeals to the sense of taste? |
Blank verse | Which poetic metrical pattern is made up of unrhymed iambic pentameter? |
Ballad | What type of poem was traditionally set to music and used to tell a story? |
Elegy | What form of poem is written in praise of someone who has died? |
Dramatic | What type of monologue has an imaginary speaker addressing an imaginary audience? |
Figurative | What type of language uses figures of speech? |
Free | What type of verse has no regular metre or length? |
Heroic | What is the name of a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter? |
Lyric | What term refers to a poem in which the poet talks about their thoughts and feelings? |
Masculine | What term refers to monosyllabic rhyming words? |
Octave | What term refers to a group of eight lines in poetry? |
Persona | What is the term that refers to the narrator of a poem, as opposed to the voice of the poet? |
Quatrain | What term refers to a group of four lines in poetry? |
Sestet | What term refers to a group of six lines in poetry? |
Symbol | What is the term that describes a figurative device in which a word of phrase represents something in addition to itself? |
Volta | What is the term that refers to a turn in a sonnet, separating the octave from the sestet? |