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Poetry Terms Quiz
Poetry terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| Assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds |
| Ballad | a narrative poem often intended to be sung |
| Caesura | a sudden break or pause in poetry |
| Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds at the middle or end of words |
| Couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry |
| Didactic | a poem which is intended to teach a lesson |
| Dramatic poem | a poem which employs a dramatic form |
| Elegy | a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died |
| End stopped line | a term applied to the verse to indicate a pause at the end of the line |
| Enjambment | the continuation of a line of poetry to the next line |
| Epic | a long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character |
| Eye rhyme | a rhyme that appears to rhyme at first glance |
| Free verse | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter of rhyme scheme |
| Imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience |
| Internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line |
| Lyric poem | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as" |
| Ode | a formal, often ceremonial lyric poem that addresses and celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their meaning |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms into a brief phrase |
| Parallel structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures |
| Personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |
| Pun | a "play on words" based on multiple meaning of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things |
| Refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem |
| Repetition | the repeating of a word or phrase |
| Rhythm | a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alteration of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Simile | a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as" |
| Sonnet | a "little song" that reflects upon a single attitude/opinion/emotion, with a clarification or turn of though in its concluding lines |
| Tone | the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, and is revealed through diction and figurative language |
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