Literary Devices
3. A stanza can best be defined as…
A group of lines separated by an extra space in a poem
9. A self-enclosed line of poetry is…
A line of poetry that is a complete thought
23. An ode can best be defined as…
A poem that is a long, serious reflection on a subject. It normally “elevates” the subject
24/30. Where did odes AND elegies originate?
Ancient Greece
43. A simile is…
A figure of speech comparing two different objects or phrases to each other using like or as
1. Scansion is…
The act of scanning (reading) lines of a poem to determine its rhythm/meter
10. Enjambment can best be defined as…
A line of poetry that is “interrupted” by the line break
21. A haiku can best be defined as…
Generally, a poem composed of seventeen syllables. In English it is often broken into the structure of three lines of five, seven, five syllables.
36. A limerick has the following rhyme pattern:
Aabba
42. A metaphor is…
A figure of speech comparing two different objects or phrases to each other
2. “Turning the line” means to…
Beginning a new line in a poem
8. What is the difference between prose and verse?
Prose is “typical” writing and what most books are written in; verse is metered or poetry
21. An elegy can best be defined as…
Poems that mourn and seek to comfort for a loss—a lament
38. Free verse is…
Poetry without a consistent meter or rhyme
44. Hyperbole is…
Exaggeration in words.
4. Meter can best be defined as…
The rhythm of poetry, determined by metrical foot in a poem
16. Iambic pentameter is…
Five pairs unstressed/stressed syllables
25. In a villanelle, which lines from the first stanza are repeated throughout the entire poem?
Lines one and three
26. Strophe translates to…
The turn
49. An onomatopoeia is…
Words that resemble the sounds they represent, i.e. words that look like they sound
5. A metrical foot is…
A combination of one stressed and at least one unstressed syllable in a poem
11. A one-foot line is called…
Monometer
34. How many lines total are there in a villanelle?
Ninteen
17. List the styles of ode
Pindaric, Horatian
36. An oxymoron is…
When contradictory (in conflict or opposing) words are grouped together to create a striking image