Poetry Terms

_____ Alliteration

• A. The use of a word whose sound suggests or imitates its meaning

• B. The writer or speaker's choice of words, depending on the audience

• C. The running on of thought from one line to the next without a syntactical break

• D. Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a line of poetry.

_____ Apostrophe

• A. The use of a word whose sound suggests or imitates its meaning

• B. The writer or speaker's choice of words, depending on the audience

• C. A poetic device used to address absent or nonliving objects as if they were present or alive.

• D. Repeated consonant sounds within the words of a line of poetry

_____ Assonance

• A. The use of a word whose sound suggests or imitates its meaning

• B. The writer or speaker's choice of words, depending on the audience

• C. Repetition of similar vowel sounds in words that are close together in a poem.

• D. Repeated consonant sounds within the words of a line of poetry

_____ Caesura

• A. a pause within a line of poetry.

• B. The writer or speaker's choice of words, depending on the audience

• C. The running on of thought from one line to the next without a syntactical break

• D. Repeated consonant sounds within the words of a line of poetry

_____ Conceit

• A. a pause within a line of poetry

• B. a play on multiple meanings of a word; two words that sound alike but different meanings.

• C. the pattern of rhymes in a poem

• D. an extended metaphor that makes a complex comparison

_____ Connotation

• A. a play on multiple meanings of a word; two words that sound alike but different meanings

• B. the implied or suggested meanings of a word

• C. the pattern of rhymes in a poem

• D. an extended metaphor that makes a complex comparison.

_____ Consonance

• A. The use of a word whose sound suggests or imitates its meaning

• B. The writer or speaker's choice of words, depending on the audience

• C. The running on of thought from one line to the next without a syntactical break

• D. Repeated consonant sounds within the words of a line of poetry

_____ Diction

• A. The use of a word whose sound suggests or imitates its meaning

• B. The writer or speaker's choice of words, depending on the audience

• C. The running on of thought from one line to the next without a syntactical break

• D. Repeated consonant sounds within the words of a line of poetry

_____ Elegy

• A. A play on multiple meanings of a word; two words that sound alike but different meanings.

• B. a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem; a lament for the dead.

• C. the pattern of rhymes within a poem

• D. a unit of measure within a poem

_____ Enjambment

• A. The use of a word whose sound suggests or imitates its meaning

• B. The writer or speaker's choice of words, depending on the audience

• C. The running on of thought from one line to the next without a syntactical break

• D. Repeated consonant sounds within the words of a line of poetry