DEFINITIONS

Using the list of terms provided, write the appropriate word on the line next to the item number.

__________________ 1. the representation in language of sense experience

__________________ 2. the repetition of the initial sound of several words in the

same line

__________________ 3. the repetition of the end sound of two words

__________________ 4. poetry with no specific meter or rhyme scheme

__________________ 5. use of words whose pronunciations reflect their meanings

__________________ 6. poetry that tells a story

__________________ 7. an implied comparison of two unlike things

__________________ 8. repetition of vowel sounds in a group of words close

together (lake/fake=rhyme, but an example of this is lake/
fate)

__________________ 9. a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic

pentameter, whose regular rhyme scheme and ends with a
couplet that makes the point

__________________ 10. a two-syllabled poetic foot consisting of an accented and an

unaccented syllable, as in the word happy.

__________________ 11. a narrative poem whose regular rhythm and rhyme scheme
help to create its effect

__________________ 12. a figure of speech which uses exaggeration or overstatement

for effect

__________________ 13. a reference to another work of literature, a historical figure

or event, or the Bible.

__________________ 14. giving human characteristics to inanimate objects or

creatures not human

__________________ 15. the use of words in oral or written discourse

__________________ 16. repeats sounds within the lines of verse

__________________ 17. the theory and principles of verse (including rhythm, accent,
and stanza)
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EXAMPLES/APPLICATION
Using the list of terms provided, write the label that identifies each example.
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a group of related lines that forms a division of a poem or a
song
a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet’s
meditations upon death or upon a grave theme
the device of continuing the sense and grammatical
construction of a verse or a couplet on into the next
a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed,
as waken and forsaken, audition and rendition
The summer night
is a dark blue hammock
slung between the white pillars of day.
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and
weary.......”
[Edgar Allan Poe]
Pushing up their heads
Proudly
Like
Golden nuggets
On green velvet
But
Lawn owners don’t love them.
Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting,
The river sang below;
The dim Sierras, far beyond, uplifting
Their minarets of snow.
[Bret Harte]
A girl who was failing her classes
Spent too much time forging her passes.
On the day she was caught
She said, “Now I’ve been taught
To attend more with all the good lasses.
Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
[Shakespeare]
__________________ 28. “The flower garden was stained with rotting brown
magnolia petals, and ironweeds grew rank amid the purple
phlox.”

__________________ 29. “The same sweet smiles, the same sad tears...”
[Jacques Brel]

__________________ 30. “The scum, once come, is come for good.”

[John Updike]

__________________ 31. for a child who skipped rope

Here lies resting, out of breath,

Out of turns, Elizabeth
Whose quicksilver toes not quite
Cleared the whirring edge of night.

Earth whose circles round us skim

Till they catch the lightest limb,
Shelter now Elizabeth
And for her sake trip up Death.

__________________ 32. She sees how their red silk flare

Of petaled blood
Burns open to the sun’s blade.
On that green alter

Freely becomes sun’s bride, the latter

Grows quick with seed.

alliteration! ! prosody
allusion! ! rhyme!
assonance! ! Shakespearean sonnet!
ballad! ! simile!
diction! ! stanza!
elegy ! ! trochaic meter!
enjambment! !
feminine rhyme! !
free verse! !
hyperbole
imagery !
internal rhyme! !
limerick! !
metaphor!
narrative poetry
onomatopoeia! !
personification!
Petrarchan sonnet!