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Poetry Terms - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 35 times
- The average score is 11 of 34
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| a fourteen-line poem traditionally written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization. | sonnet | 73%
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| a grouping of lines that forms the main unit in a poem. | stanza | 67%
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| a comparison between essentially unlike things, or the application of a name or description to something to which it is not literally applicable. | metaphor | 60%
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| a comparison between two essentially unlike things using words “such as,” “like,” and “as.” | simile | 60%
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| the repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginnings of words. | alliteration | 53%
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| two line stanza | couplet | 53%
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| a rhetorical device involving contradictions of expectation or knowledge and divided into three primary types: verbal, situational, and dramatic. | irony | 53%
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| poet gives human characteristics to nonhuman things | personification | 53%
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| a four-line stanza, or unit of four lines of verse, rhymed or unrhymed. - shakespeare | quatrain | 53%
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| exaggeration for emphasis. | hyperbole | 50%
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| a rising meter form consisting of five pairs of unstressed and stressed or accented syllables as five iambic feet per line. | Iambic Pentameter | 50%
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| the continuation of a sentence or clause across one poetic line break. | enjambment | 47%
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| the use of language that sounds like the thing or action it describes. | onomatopoeia | 37%
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| an object or action that stands for something beyond itself. | symbol | 33%
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| rhetorical shift that marks the change of a thought or argument in a poem. | volta | 33%
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| a reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem. | allusion | 30%
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| language in a poem representing a sensory experience, including visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory. | imagery | 30%
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| an eight-line stanza, and also refers to the first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet, usually in iambic pentameter and with a rhyme scheme. - petrarchan | octave | 30%
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| a six-line stanza, or unit of six lines of verse, or the final six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet, rhymed or unrhymed. | sestet | 30%
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| a narrative or visual representation with an underlying meaning, moral message, or political significance. | allegory | 27%
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| a pause for a beat in the rhythm of a verse, often indicated by a line break or by punctuation. | caesura | 27%
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| the repetition of similar consonant sounds. | consonance | 27%
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| rhyme in the middle of the line and not at the end | internal rhyme | 23%
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| the structure of a poem, including its line lengths, line breaks, meter, stanza lengths, and rhyme scheme. | form | 17%
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| a rhyme formed with words with similar but not wholly identical sounds; also called an off rhyme, half rhyme, and imperfect rhyme. | slant rhyme | 17%
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| a three-line stanza, or unit of three lines of verse, rhymed or unrhymed. | tercet | 17%
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| extended metaphor | conceit | 13%
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| the arrangement of language and order of words used to convey the poem’s content. | syntax | 13%
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| a literary device that conveys the author’s attitude toward the subject, speaker, or audience of a poem. | tone | 13%
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| the implied or suggested meaning associated with a word or phrase. | connotation | 10%
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| 3 quatrains. Ends in a couplet | English | 10%
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| Octave and Sestet | Italian | 10%
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| poetry that engages with, describes, or considers the natural world. | nature poetry | 7%
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| a poem also known as a dramatic monologue in which the poet assumes the voice of another person, fictional character, or identity. | persona poem | 3%
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