Year 9 Poetry Revision

Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines is:

The patterning of rhythm in natural speech, or in poetry without a distinct meter is:

A disruption of harmonic sounds or rhythms is:

The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse is:

The poet’s attitude toward the poem’s speaker, reader, and subject matter is:

The repetition of vowel sounds is:

A figure of speech that is a seemingly self-contradictory phrase or concept that illuminates a truth:

A grouping of lines separated from others in a poem is:

The repetition of similar vowel sounds takes place in two or more words in proximity to each other is:

The omission of unstressed syllables (e.g., “ere” for “ever,”) usually to fit a metrical scheme is:

The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation is:

A single unit of speech sound as written or spoken is:

The voice of the poem, similar to a narrator in fiction is:

A figure of speech composed of a striking exaggeration is:

A pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length is:

Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images is:

A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement is:

A literary device in which contradictory statements reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true:

The attribution of human qualities, emotions, or actions to inanimate objects of nature:

A object, person, situation, or action that has a literal meaning but suggests or represents other meanings is:

A common figure of speech that makes a comparison by directly relating one thing to another unrelated thing is:

The emotion the author strives to evoke in the reader is referred to as:

Poems that have emphasis on drawing connections between human activity and the environment that it produces:

A stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation is:

A syllable uttered in a higher pitch—or with greater emphasis—than others:

A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person is:

A poet’s departure from the rules of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary in order to maintain a metrical or rhyme scheme is: