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What is the significance of enjambment when reading poetry?

figure of speech where two contradictory words present an emphatic and dramatic paradox

Poetry Terms Review

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A review of some of the vocabulary of poetry for an AP Lit class.

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figure of speech where two contradictory words present an emphatic and dramatic paradox
Oxymoron
Paradox
Irony
Idiom
2
What is the significance of enjambment when reading poetry?
It doesn't. I stop at the end of every line.
The thought doesn't end with the line. I must read on.
I should pretend that the end of each line has a period.
The poet is just making the reading of the poem difficult.
3
Two successive rhyming verses is a
Couple of lines
Caesura
Cumplenanos
Couplet
4
Close analysis of diction allows the astute reader to correctly identify/describe the poet's
Metonomy
Atmosphere
Mood
Tone
5
Allusion is used to add
interest to a poem for the reader
visual interest to a poem
to rhyme scheme
layers of meaning, drawing on the connotation of a reference
6
As an expert reader of poetry, I should care about quatrains because...
Every poem has quatrains,
Quatrain means 4, duh
Chunking a poem will help me understand the prose.
7
When an expression in a poem extends more than one line
Enjambment
End-stopped line
Caesura
Non-stanza poetry
8
What is the ultimate objective of poetry analysis.
Madness for my students
Appreciating the beauty of all poetry
Applying technical analysis of its structure and form
Evaluation of the poet's choices as they convey meaning
9
When the speaker of a poem directly addresses a non-living person, entity or deity it is called
apostophe
epithet
anaphora
epistle
10
A stanza of 4 lines, especially one with ABAB rhyme scheme is called
A couplet
A cinquain
A quintain
A quatrain