Poetry Terms (ENC1102)

Which is NOT among the subjects that can be addressed by a narrator/speaker in a case of apostrophe

In Wheatley's "On Being Brought...", when the poet makes a biblical reference to Cain, she gives us an example of ...

We can tell a lot about cultures from the patterns of symbols, characters, and plot events in their stories, also called

"Mike likes his new bike"

In horror movies when some poor soul is doesn't see what the audience does ... the killer is right behind them!

Which is NOT an example of metonymy?

"Take a look, it's in a book" gives us both assonance and consonance

How many sheets could a sheet-slitter slit if a sheet-slitter could slit sheets.

To show how a speaker departs from standard pronunciation of certain words, a writer would use which kind of diction?

When Emily Dickinson wrote that she "heard a fly buzz when (she) died," she gave us an example of ...

Which is NOT an example of synecdoche?

connotation is the emotional association beyond literal meaning; denotation is the dictionary definition of a word

what type of rhyme are the words love and move

some mammals are clammy

A detailed or complex metaphor is called an extended metaphor. What do you call a detailed simile?

Which form of irony is NOT on display in Thomas Hardy's "The Ruined Maid"

sensory details used to describe an object and often also to evoke a feeling

If his ignorance of the killer's presence gets him killed, we can also label this "tragic irony"

the most common type of rhyme, which we expect to hear in many songs and poems, is a/an

When Hamlet refers to "the whips and scorns of time" he is giving us a/an...

The attitude of an author/speaker toward his/her subject is tone. How is tone primarily expressed.

a comparison that is direct, explicit, usually using words like or as