English Poetry Terms #3 Quiz Prep

speaker addresses a silent auditor or auditors in a specific situation and setting that is revealed entirely through the speaker’s words; this kind of poem’s primary aim is the revelation of the speaker’s personality, views, and values.          

an imaginary listener within a literary work, as opposed to the actual reader or audience outside the work

a characterizing word or phrase that precedes, follows, or substitutes for the name of a person or thing, such as slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., or Zeus, the god of trophies

a figure of speech in which a speaker or narrator addresses an abstraction, an object, or a dead or absent person               

the technique of running over from one line to the next without stop, as in the following lines by William Wordsworth: “My heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky.”

a line of verse that contains or concludes a complete clause and usually ends with a punctuation mark

two consecutive lines of verse linked by rhyme and meter

a couplet written in iambic pentameter

a poetic form, Japanese in origin, that in English consists of seventeen syllables arranged in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively

a light or humorous poem or subgenre of poems consisting of mainly anapestic lines of which the first, second, and fifth are of three feet; the third and fourth lines are of two feet; and the rhyme scheme is aabba.

blank verse