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poetry quiz
Quiz for Thursday
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Poetry | One of the three major types of literature, the others being prose and drama |
| Speaker | Every poem has a speaker. It can be the poet or a character in the story itself |
| Line | A word or row of words that may not form a complete sentence |
| Stanza | A group of lines forming a unit. They are separated by space |
| Rhythm | Pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line CAn be regular or irregular |
| Meter | regular patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables, which sets the overall rhythm of certain poems |
| Rhyme | Repetition of the same vowel sound and any succeeding sounds in two or more words |
| Internal Rhyme | Occurs within a line of petry |
| End Rhyme | Occurs at the end of lines |
| Rhyme Scheme | Pattern of end rhymes |
| Alliteration | Repetition of Constant sounds at the beginning of words, used to emphasize words. |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry |
| Allusion | Reference to a well known person place, event, literary work or work of art |
| Connotation | Meaning beyond the literal, deeper meaning |
| Conosance | Repetition of constant sound in words |
| Couplet | Pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter |
| Denotation | A world's dictionary meaning, independent of other associations that the word may have |
| Enjambment | The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet or stanza |
| Epic | A long narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes |
| Epitaph | The passage that appears on one's tombstone |
| Free Verse | Poetry not written in a regular rhythmic meter is pattern. It seeks to recapture the rhythms of speech, and it the dominant for of modern poetry |
| Hyperbole | Exaggerating in order to make your point stronger. IT is not meant to be taken literally |
| Imagery | Word or phrases that appeal to the reader's 5 senses |
| Lyric Poem | A highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker |
| Metaphor | A comparison between two things, Not using like or as |
| Narrative Poem | A poem that tells a story |
| Personification | Figurative language in which the nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| Simile | A figure of speech in which a comparison is made of two nunlike things or ideas using the words like or as |
| Sonnet | 14 line lyric poem, often written in rhymed lambic pentameter. An English or Shakespearean, sonnet consists of three quatrains and a couplet usually rhyming abab cdcd efed gg. the last two lines usually comment of the ideas from the first 3 stanzas. |
| Symbol | Anything that stands for or represents something else |
| Theme | Central message or insight into life, revealed through a literary work |
| Tone | Author's attitude toward the subject or audience |
| Voice | Author or narrator's style or manner of expression |
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