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poetry study set
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is a line | a fundamental unit in poetry. |
| what is a stanza | a grouping of lines that forms the main unit in a poem. |
| what is a rhyme | the correspondence of sounds in words or lines of verse. |
| what is a rhyme sheme | the pattern of rhymes falling at the ends of a poem’s lines |
| what is a alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginnings of words. |
| what is a simile | comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| what is a Irony | a rhetorical device involving contradictions of expectation or knowledge and divided into three primary types: verbal, situational, and dramatic. |