English Poetry Terms Quiz
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alison-yousefi on February 9, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ALLUSION | a reference to some person, place or event that has literary, historical or geographical significance. |
| ANTITHESIS | opposing words or ideas written in grammatical parallels |
| APOSTROPHE | addressing someone (dead) or something (an idea), not present, as though present |
| CONCEIT | a far-fetched and ingenious comparison between two unlike things |
| HYPERBOLE (OVERSTATEMENT) | an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis which is not to be taken literally |
| LITOTES | an understatement conveyed by stating the opposite of what one means or by stating a fact in the negative |
| METONYMY | the substitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | the use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds |
| PARADOX | a statement, often metaphorical, that seems to be self-contradictory but has valid meaning |
| PERSONIFICATION | the giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas or animals. |
| PUN | a play on words that are identical or similar but have diverse meanings |
| OXYMORON | a type of paradox in which two linked words contradict each other (e.g., "jumbo shrimp") |
| SYNECDOCHE | a substitution in which a part is used to represent the whole |
| UNDERSTATEMENT | saying less than one means or saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants. |
| FABLE | a short tale that teaches a moral lesson in which the characters are usually (but not always) animals with human qualities and speech. |
| LYRIC | any short, musical poem which expresses the poet's clearly revealed thoughts and feelings |
| HAIKU | It is a three-line Japanese poem, usually about nature. The first line has five syllables, the second has seven syllables, and the third line has five syllables. |
| PASTORAL | a poem that idealizes rural living and nature |
| LIMERICK | a five-line nonsense poem with anapestic meter |
| FIXED FORM | a traditional pattern that applies to a whole poem |
| VILLANELLE | It consists of five tercets and a quatrain rhyming "aba" (with a variation in the quatrain). The first and third lines of the first tercet alternate as the final lines of the other stanzas; these lines are again repeated as the final two lines of the poem. |
| FIGURE OF SPEECH | an expression when the words are used in a non-literal sense to present a figure, picture or image |
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