What is dramatic poetry?

A form of drama written in verse using dramatic devices.

What is lyric poetry?

A concise, emotionally expressive poem with a songlike quality, narrated in the first person.

What is narrative poetry?

A type of poem which tells a story, employing artistic techniques like rhyme and rhythm.

A folk song usually simple and fairly short, often telling a story.

What is a dramatic monologue?

A type of lyric poem where a single person utters the speech that makes up the whole poem.

An elaborate formal lyric poem lamenting the death of a friend or public figure.

A long, narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of legendary heroes.

A poem where a trivial subject is made ridiculous by being treated with the elaborate devices of the epic.

A traditional Japanese poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.

A short pastoral poem, usually in dialogue or soliloquy, on the subject of rural life.

A poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically.

A long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style.

A lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme.

What is the speaker in a poem?

The individual who utters the words in the poem, not necessarily the poet.

What is tone in poetry?

The speaker's attitude towards the subject or subjects in a poem.

The creation of mental pictures through the use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, and ideas.

What is rhythm in poetry?

A repeating pattern or structure that a poet utilizes to arrange stressed and unstressed syllables.

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in English verse.

The occurrence of similar sounds in two or more words or phrases.

What is alliteration?

The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the beginning or middle of words.

The repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants.

The utilization of identical or similar vowel sounds in two or more words.

What is onomatopoeia?

The formation or use of words that imitate or sound like the natural sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

What is a figure of speech?

A literary device that employs language to create a literary effect.

A form of literature that expresses a concealed message through symbolic characters and events.

A figure of speech that refers to a famous person, place, or historical event.

A literary device that places someone or something associated with a particular historical time in the wrong time period.

The repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases or sentences.

The replacement of a harsh expression with a mild or pleasant one.

A rhetorical technique in which exaggeration is used for emphasis.

A situation where there is a contrast between the expected outcome and reality.

What is understatement?

Describing something in a way that makes it seem less important than it really is.

An explicit comparison between two unlike objects using 'like' or 'as'.

An implicit comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another.

An unusual, far-fetched, and much elaborated metaphor or simile.

A figure of speech where something is represented by something closely associated with it.

A figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole or vice versa.

A concise paradox, often compressed into two words, with opposite meanings.

An apparently self-contradictory statement that contains a truth.

What is personification?

Attributing human traits to abstract ideas or inanimate objects.

A play upon words that creates ambiguity through similar sounds or multiple meanings.

The use of scornful and ironic language.

An object or abstraction that stands for or represents something else.

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What is poetry?

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A genre of literature grounded in the interplay between words and rhythm, often incorporating rhyme and meter.

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What is a poet?

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An author who writes poetry.

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What is a stanza?

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A grouping of verse lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.

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What is a couplet?

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A couplet comprises two lines of equal length that rhyme with each other.

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What is a tercet?

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A stanza comprising three lines, which typically feature a single rhyme.

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What is a quatrain?

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A stanza with four rhyming or non-rhyming lines.

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What is a refrain?

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A repeated line or group of lines that appears at regular intervals throughout a poem.

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