Lit. Terms 1

__________ is a simple story that represents a larger point about society or human nature, whose different characters may represent real-life figures.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Analogy

Romeo is an example of an __________

• Ambiguity

• Anagram

• Assonance

• Archetype

The line below is an example of __________ .

“Days wane away.”

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Anecdote

• Anaphora

A _____ is intended to provide a moral story.

• Fable

• Myth

• Epic

• Narrative

A long narrative poem.

• Sonnet

• Ballad

• Epitaph

• Epic

The poem below is an example of what type of poem?

“After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;

After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,

Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,

Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:

Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,

Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous waves,

Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,

Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface…”

• Free verse

• Blank verse

• Iambic pentameter

• Sonnet

mysteries, westerns, and romances.

• Hyperbole

• Genre

• Type

• Rhythm

The following line of poetry is an example of __________ .

“He’s King of the Swing.”

• Rhyme patterns

• End rhyme

• External rhyme

• Internal rhyme

The poem below is an example of __________ .

“ERE on my bed my limbs I lay,

It hath not been my use to pray

With moving lips or bended knees;

But silently, by slow degrees,

My spirit I to Love compose,

In humble trust mine eye-lids close,

With reverential resignation,

No wish conceived, no thought exprest,

Only a sense of supplication.”

• a Lyric

• an Ode

• an Elegy

• an Epic

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem are called __________ .

• Rythm

• Rhyme

• Meter

• Metrics