Poetry Vocab!!!

Question 1

speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimite object, or concept as though it is a person

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apostrophe

Question 2

the repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity

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alliteration

Question 3

repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line through a work or the section of a work

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anaphora

Question 4

an exaggeration for effect

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hyperbole

Question 5

a closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter

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sonnet

Question 6

a direct comparison between two dissimilar things using "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison

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simile

Question 7

a comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as if it were something else

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metaphor

Question 8

a "crossing" or reversal of two elements, antimetabole, a form of this, is the reversal of the same words

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chiasmus

Question 9

a type of poem, derived from the theater, in which a speaker addresses an internal listener or the reader

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monologue

Question 10

A narrative poem composed of quatrains

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ballad

Question 11

usually used to describe the level of formality that a speaker uses

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diction

Question 12

two successive rhyming lines

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couplet

Question 13

a complete and detailed analysis of a work of literature, often word-by-word and line-by-line

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explication

Question 14

The repitition of the same sounds in different words in close proximity

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assonance

Question 15

A short but definite pause used for effect within a line of poetry

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caesura

Question 16

attritubuting human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions

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personification

Question 17

Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers is an example of what?

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alliteration

Question 18

a rhetorical figure embodying a seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true

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paradox

Question 19

Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize

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allusion

Question 20

A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line

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enjambment

Question 21

a group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in a prose

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stanza

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