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Poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the pattern of rhyme set by the last words in lines? | rhyme scheme |
| What is a reference to something well known outside the text? | allusion |
| What is a word's associated meaning? | connotation |
| What is a major exaggeration? | hyberbole |
| What literary device gives human qualities to inanimate objects? | personification |
| What is a humorous, mocking or imitation of another's work? | parody |
| What is rhyme that occurs at the end of the line? | end rhyme |
| What is a statement where the author says less than what he or she really means? | understatement |
| What is poetry with no established rhyme scheme, meter, or beat? | free verse |
| What is a word's dictionary meaning? | denotation |
| What is the repeating of consonant sounds in the middle and at ends of words? | consonance |
| What is the chorus or repeating same lines/words at the end of stanzas/verses? | refrain |
| What is language that creates mental pictures and appeals to the senses? | imagery |
| What is a comparison that uses "like" or "as"? | simile |
| What is a listing of items? | cataloging |
| What is a direct comparison? | metaphor |
| What is repeating beginning consonant sounds within a line? | alliteration |
| What is the repeating of words/phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines? | anaphora |
| What is the repeating the same or simiar vowel sounds within a line? | assonance |
| What is the reflection of a writer's or a speaker's attitude toward the subject matter? | tone |
| What is the emotional quality or atmosphere of a literary work? | mood |
| What is a category or type of literature? | genre |
| What is a general, unstated main idea of a poem or piece of literature? | theme |
| What refers to words that almost rhyme, but not quite? | slant rhyme |
| What is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that sets the overall rhythm of certain poems? | meter |
| What is the basic unit of meter called? | foot |
| What is the use of a word that imitates the sound it describes? | onomatopoeia |
| What is the continuation of a sentence from one line of poem to another? | enjambment |
| What is a pause in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of a line, with two stressed syllables before and two after, creating a strong rhythm? | caesura |
| What are pleasant sounding words called? | euphony |
| What are harsh and discordant words called? | dissononce |
| What is the analysis of a line of poetry? | scansion |
| What is the voice speaking in the poem? | speaker |
| What is a character type, descriptive detail, image or story pattern that recurs frequently in the literature of a culture? | archetype |
| What is the reversal of the usual word order for emphasis or variety? | inversion |
| What is the movement that believed the image was the essence of poetry, and the language should be brief, clear, concrete, and similar to spoken language? | Imagism |
| Any object, person, place, or experience that exists on a literal level but also represents, or stands for something else, usually something abstract is called what? | symbol |
| What is the rhythmic rise and fall of language when it is read aloud or spoken? | cadence |
| What is the figure of speech which addresses an inanimate object, an idea or an absent person? | apostrophe |
| What is a writer's choice of words called? | diction |
| What is rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry | internal rhyme |
| What is a statement that seems to be contradictory or impossible but is none the less true? | paradox |
| What is a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song called? | stanza |
| This occurs when words include sounds that are similar but not identical. | slant rhyme |
| What is a restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words? | paraphrasing |
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