5 Written Questions

1. technique of emphasizing by saying less than is literally true; oppostite of hyberbole
2. humorous imitation of a well known work of art or literature
3. language arranged in lines and stanzas; the opposite of prose
4. a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to a nonhuman
5. the pattern or beat of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

5 Matching Questions

1. octave
2. quatrain
3. stanza
4. paradox
5. parallelism

1. a a group of eight lines of poetry
2. b a group of four lines of poetry
3. c a group of lines that forms a unit of poetry; comparable to a paragraph in prose
4. d a statement that contains contradiction, or opposite ideas
5. e repetition of grammatical constructions to express related ideas of equal importance

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. unique use of language that allows a reader to "hear" the particular personality of a character, speaker, or author
   1. sonnet
   2. sestet
   3. simile
   4. voice
2. indirect (using like,as, such) comparison between two unlike things
   1. voice
   2. sonnet
   3. sestet
   4. simile
3. a direct comparision between two unlike things
   1. octave
   2. stanza
   3. metaphor
   4. paradox
4. a group of six lines of poetry
   1. sonnet
   2. sestet
   3. simile
   4. voice
5. lines and stanzas that tell a story
   1. onomatopoeia
   2. narrative poem
   3. parallelism
   4. paradox

5 True/False Question

1. pun → humorous imitation of a well known work of art or literature
   

   True        False

2. rhyme scheme → the pattern or beat of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
   

   True        False

3. sonnet → a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter
   

   True        False

4. oxymoron → a statement that contains contradiction, or opposite ideas
   

   True        False

5. onomatopoeia → two words together containing contradictory meanings
   

   True        False