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  • What is the stress pattern for an anapest?
    U + U + /
  • What is a stanza with 8 lines called?
    Octave
  • What is the stress pattern for an dactyl?
    / + U + U
  • What is the stress pattern for a trochee?
    / + U
  • Identify the correct name for the following metrical length: 7 feet
    Heptameter
  • What is personification?
    Creating a person through the process of purification
    Giving animate animated objects inanimate traits/qualities
    Objectifying a person
    Giving inanimate objects animated traits/qualities
  • Identify the correct name for the following metrical length: 6 feet
    Hexameter
  • A fourteen-line poem; the most common forms are Shakespearean and Italian
    Sonnet
    Villanelle
    Ballad
    Narrative
  • Written poetry that doesn't use any fixed poetic forms
    Lyric
    Free verse
    Haiku
    Rhyme scheme
  • Identify the correct name for the following metrical length: 8 feet
    Octameter
  • What is a stanza with 3 lines called?
    Tercet
  • Identify the correct name for the following metrical length: 5 feet
    Pentameter
  • What is alliteration?
    Repetition of the same letter/sound at the end of words
    Repetition of the same letter/sound at the start of words
    Taking things to literally
    Explaining something using literal language
  • Select the sentence that best demonstrates alliteration.
    I must insist on silence while studying
    The light of the moon lit the night.
    Seven snakes slid silently to the sea
    Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
  • What is the stress pattern for an amphibrach?
    U + / + U
  • What is the stress pattern for a cretic?
    / + U + /
  • Why can it be helpful to identify the stanza structure of a poem during analysis?
    Answers dependent upon group response.
  • What is allusion?
    An intricate reference to another writer's work
    A comparison between two things that are similar
    A direct quote from a text
    A brief reference to a person, place, or thing
  • What is a simile?
    Comparing the smiles of those around you.
    Compares apples to oranges
    Compares one thing to another using "like" or "as"
    Implies a comparison between two relatively unlikely things
  • Select the sentence that best demonstrates both alliteration and repetition.
    She was lost in a sea of nameless faces
    The starts shone brightly, lighting the way home
    An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
    Wild winds whip around, whispering words, whispering words
  • What is assonance?
    Endings of words that sound alike
    Repetition of consonant sounds within words
    Repetition of vowel sounds within words
    A great, emphasized exaggeration
  • Identify the correct name for the following metrical length: 2 feet
    Dimeter
  • What is repetition?
    Using words more than once in a sentence/stanza
    Repetition of vowel sounds
    The beat/timing of the poem
    Compares different things using "like" or "as"
  • What is a stanza with 4 lines called?
    Quatrain
  • Define: enjambment
    When a sentence runs from one line to the next without any sort of punctuation.
  • Identify the line that best demonstrates assonance.
    Bouncing into the room, the puppy's energy was infectious
    The cat ate the rat
    I made my way to the lake to take a break
    Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
  • What is a stanza with 2 lines called?
    Couplet
  • What is a stanza with 6 lines called?
    Sestet
  • What is onomatopoeia?
    Words that imitate/suggest the sound of what they describe
    Refers to a well-known person, event, or literary work
    Compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"
    Descriptive language that appeals to the senses
  • What is rhyme?
    The beat or timing of a poem
    Words that represent sounds
    Repetition of vowel sounds
    Endings of words that sound alike
  • What line could be the second line of a haiku?
    Puppies are very cuddly
    I cuddled my puppy
    Soft and cuddly
    Smooth, soft, cuddly pup
  • What is a stanza with 5 lines called?
    Quintet
  • Define: Poetic feet
    A term that describes specific arrangements of stressed and unstressed syllables within lines of poetry.
  • What is a rhyme scheme?
    A type of poetry
    Never heard of that before, therefore it does not exist
    Two or more words that start with the same consonant sound
    A letter code given to the pattern of rhymes in a stanza
  • Identify the correct name for the following metrical length: 4 feet
    Tetrameter
  • What is the stress pattern for an iamb?
    U + /
  • Select the sentence that best demonstrates onomatopoeia
    The leaves danced in the wind
    She was brave as a lion
    Love is like a red, red rose
    With a crash, the waves hit the shore
  • What is figurative language?
    Language with additional layers of meaning
  • Which of the following lines best demonstrates consonance?
    He struck a streak of bad luck
    The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain
    The early bird catches the worm
    She sells seashells down by the seashore
  • What is the stress pattern for an spondee?
    / + /
  • Identify the correct name for the following metrical length: 1 foot
    Monometer
  • Define: stanza
    the "paragraph of a poem"
  • What is consonance?
    Repetition of an idea
    Repetition of consonant sounds within words
    Repetition of the "s" sound
    Repetition of vowel sounds within words
  • What is alliteration?
    The central or dominating idea
    The feelings a reader gets from the story
    When two or more words in a group begin with the same letter
    The sequence of events in a story
  • What is slant rhyme?
    Words that don't rhyme
    Poems that are easily knocked over
    Poems with inherent bias
    Rhyming words that are imperfect, but close
  • Define: end-stopped
    A line that ends with closing punctuation
  • Define: caesura
    Full or hard stop (typically) located towards the middle of a line
  • What is a stanza with 7 lines called?
    Septet
  • What is a metaphor?
    A comparison between two things to highlight similarities
    Implies a comparison between two relatively unlikely things.
    Exaggerated statement to emphasize an idea or point
    Comparing one thing to something else using "like" or "as"
  • Select the sentence that best demonstrates both consonance and assonance.
    A rolling stone gathers no moss
    Misty mornings, silent nights
    An apple a day keeps the doctor away
    The early bird catches the worm
  • What is a hyperbole?
    A seemingly contradictory statement
    Exaggerated statement to emphasize an idea or point
    A part is used to represent the whole, or vice versa
    Play on words
  • Identify the correct name for the following metrical length: 3 feet
    Trimeter
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