Poetry Term Quiz Review!
Poetry that tells a story. Like fiction the poem contains characters, setting, and plot.
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Makes a comparison between two unlike things without like or as??
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Metaphor
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• Exaggeration used for effect?
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• Hyperbole
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• Make a comparison between two unlike things using like or as?
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• Similie
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• Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the words?
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• Alliteration
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• A technique in which a sound, word, phrase or line is repeated for emphasis or unity??
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• Repetition
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• Language beyond the literal meanings of the words?
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• Figurative Language
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• Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure/verse form
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• Prose
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• A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature.
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• Allusion
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• Poem that refers to the social conditions that inspired or influenced the creation. To understand or appreciate certain works, the reader must relate them to particular events?
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• Historical Context
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• Descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experience for the reader?
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• Imagery
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• A group of lines (2 or more) forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem?
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• Stanza
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• A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter?
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• Genre
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• A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group?
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• Dialect
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• Two lines of a verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, forming a unit; a rhymed pair of lines?
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• Couplet
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• Express the writer’s attitude towards his or her subject?
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• Tone
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• Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter?
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• Free Verse
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• Literary work in which a special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; words are carefully chosen and arranged to create certain effects?
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• Poetry
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• A long narrative poem on a serious subject – adventures of a great hero and addresses universal concerns: good & evil/ life & death/ sin & redemption
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• Epic
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• A figure of speech that compares to essentially unlike things at some length and/or in several ways.
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• Extended metaphor