Poetry 1
What is a Stanza
What is a unit of poetry composed of lines that relate to a similar thought or topic like a paragraph in prose or a verse in a song?
What is a Connotation
What is the use of words suggested in a different association than its actual meaning, it can be either positive, negative or neutral?
What is a Simile
What is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things?
What is Irony
What is a situation in which there is a constant between expectation and reality?
What is Rhyme
What is the patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features of sound?
What is a Verse
What is the writing arranged in lines that have rhythm and that often rhyme at the end?
What is a Narrative Poetry
What is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using the voices of both a narrator and characters>
What is a Metaphor
What is a common device where an object of a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object?
What is an Ars Poetica?
What is a poem that expresses thoughts on the craft or purpose of poetry?
What is Allusion
What is a reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem?
What is a Refrain
What is a phrase or line repeated at intervals within a poem, especially at the end of a stanza?
What is Foreshadowing
What is the hint or clue that something is about to happen?
What is a Hyperbole.
What is A figure of speech composed of a striking exaggeration?
What is Repetition
What is repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas. It is an intentional technique that the author uses throughout the poem?
What is Apostrophe
What is a literary device in which the speaker addresses either an absent person or a non-human object, idea, or being and is commonly found in plays and poems?
What is a Consoance
What is a resemblance of sound between two words or rhyme that shares consonant sounds whether in sequence or reversed?
What is Imagery
What is the author’s use of description and vivid language, it deepens the reader’s understanding of the work by appealing to the sense in the book?
What is Onomatopoeia
What is one way a poet can create sounds in a poem?
What is a Rhyme Scheme
What is determines and explains which lines of the poem rhyme with other lines in the poem?
What is assonance
What is the repetition of the sound of a vowel?
What is anaphora?
What is the repetition of a word or words in successive poetic lines, used to create a sonic effect.
What is Enjambment
What is the continuation of a sentence or phrase that comes from one line in poetry to the next, it lacks punctuation as the line breaks?
What is a Mood
What is literature refers to the emotional undertone that an author conveys in a work?
What is a Couplet
What are two lines of poetry that usually rhyme?
What is Allieration
What is the same sound at the start of a series of words?