Poetry Terms Quiz

Anaphora

• repetition of word(s) beginning of lines, clauses, or sentences

• repetition of vowel sounds within words

• use of the same letter or sounds at the beginning of words

Conceit

• compares two things without using "like" or "as" at lenght and in multiple ways

• compares two things using "like" or "as"

• writer's or speaker's choice of words

Elegy

• a story written as a narrative poem

• poem in tribute to someone who has died, usually in a dignified manner

• exaggeration not meant to be taken literally

Scansion

• scanning a poem to determine rhythm

• quickly reading a poem

• words that almost rhyme, but do not really

Allusion

• indirect or passing reference to someone or something well known

• list of people, things, or attributes

• a magic trick

Cataloging

• repetition of people, things, or attributes

• recording one's thoughts

• creating a code in a poem

Tone

• the feeling the author creates in a text

• the feeling a reader gets from a text

• the feeling Miss R tells us is right in a text

Mood

• the feeling a reader gets from a text

• the feeling an author creates in a text

• the feeling Miss R told you is right in a text

Slant Rhyme

• words that rhyme, but are written at a slant

• words that almost rhyme, but don't really

• words that rhyme completely

Parallelism

• same grammatical structure to relate different ideas that relate to a topic (type of repetition)

• verses that are repeated

• a verse that rhymes every word