Poetry Terms
A fourteen-line poem is called
What is a sonnet?
This is the repetition of the initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration
A style of writing, developed in the nineteenth century, that attempts to depict life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing it.
What is realism
Reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, culture.
What is allusion
Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order.
What is antimetabole
Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry is called
What is a couplet
This is the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds
What is assonance
A movement that began in Europe in the seventeenth century, which held that we can arrive at truth by using reason rather than relying on the authority of the past.
What is rationalism
The process by which the author reveals the personality of a character
What is characterization
A speaker's or writer's choice of words
What is diction
This is a type of long narrative poem, written in heightened language.
What is an Epic
This is the use of words whose sounds echo their sense
What is onomatopoeia
A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition.
What is transcendentalism
A discrepancy between appearances and reality
What is irony
An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality.
What is epithet
This is a type of poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
What is Free Verse
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
What is rhyme
Literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and that reproduces the speech, behavior, and attitudes of the people who live in the area.
What is regionalism
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things
What is a metaphor
Act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves a close reading.
What is explication
This is a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem.
What is a refrain
Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row.
What is anaphora
The bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the twentieth century
What is modernism
A reoccurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work.
What is motif
A form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form.
What is litotes