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poetry terms - 20 Questions
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5 Written Questions
verse of a poem
a figure of speech that substitutes a part for the whole
a discrepancy between the expected results of some action or situation and its actual results
words or phrases that appeal to the senses and create pictures or images in the reader's mind
the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words
5 Matching Questions
irony
onomatopoeia
narrative poem
denotation
conceit
a
a contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what really happens.
b
the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning
c
the literal or dictionary meaning of a word
d
a poem that tells a story
e
a kind of developed metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things
5 Multiple Choice Questions
a poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual
theme
meter
irony
elegy
a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms
oxymoron
mood
pastoral
diction
discrepancy between what is said and what is meant
irony
scansion
dramatic irony
verbal irony
a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry, measure of the rhythm of a poetic line
sestet
meter
motif
speaker
rhymes that occur within lines of a poem
internal rhyme
verbal irony
end rhyme
rhyme
5 True/False Question
dramatic monologue
→ kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one listener or more whose replies are not given in the poem
True
False
speaker
→ persona or person speaking in the poem
True
False
sonnet
→ six line stanza
True
False
sestet
→ fourteen line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter
True
False
mood
→ feeling created in the reader by the literary work
True
False
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