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Question–Terms 1–10
A figure of speech in which a
speaker addresses an
inanimate object, an idea, or
an absent person
Answer–Terms 1–10
What is apostrophe?
Question–Terms 1–20
A narrative song or poem; it
tells a story
Answer–Terms 1–20
What is a ballad?
Question–Terms 1–30
Poetry written in unrhymed
iambic pentameter
Answer–Terms 1–30
What is blank verse?
Question–Terms 1–40
Two consecutive lines of
poetry that rhyme
Answer–Terms 1–40
What is a couplet?
Question–Terms 1–50
A long narrative poem that
traces the adventures of a
hero
Answer–Terms 1–50
What is an epic?
Question–Terms 2–10
A basic unit in the
measurement of a line of
poetry
Answer–Terms 2–10
What is a foot?
Question–Terms 2–20
Poetry written with no
rhyme or meter
Answer–Terms 2–20
What is free verse?
Question–Terms 2–30
A harsh, unpleasant
combination of sounds or
tones
Answer–Terms 2–30
What is cacophony?
Question–Terms 2–40
The word pictures that
writers create using sensory
details and description
Answer–Terms 2–40
What is imagery?
Question–Terms 2–50
A pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables in a line
of poetry
Answer–Terms 2–50
What is meter?
Question–Terms 3–10
A line or lines regularly
repeated in a poem or song
Answer–Terms 3–10
What is a refrain?
Question–Terms 3–20
A situation or statement
that seems to be impossible
or contradictory but is true
Answer–Terms 3–20
What is a paradox?
Question–Terms 3–30
A play on words that are
identical or similar in sound
but have sharply diverse
meanings.
Answer–Terms 3–30
What is a pun?
Question–Terms 3–40
A 14-line lyric poem written
in iambic pentameter and
usually following a strict
pattern
Answer–Terms 3–40
What is a sonnet?
Question–Terms 3–50
A group of lines forming a
unit in a poem
Answer–Terms 3–50
What is a stanza?
Question–Terms 4–10
The repetition of similar
consonant sounds in the middle
or at the end of words
Answer–Terms 4–10
What is consonance?
Question–Terms 4–20
The repetition of similar
sounds, most often
consonant sounds, at the
beginnings of words
Answer–Terms 4–20
What is alliteration?
Question–Terms 4–30
The repetition of similar
vowel sounds
Answer–Terms 4–30
What is assonance?
Question–Terms 4–40
A word or phrase that
sounds like what it means
Answer–Terms 4–40
What is onomatopoeia?
Question–Terms 4–50
A figure of speech in which
opposite ideas are combined
Answer–Terms 4–50
What is an oxymoron?
Question–Terms 5–10
A figure of speech the
compares two unlike things
using words such as like or
as
Answer–Terms 5–10
What is a simile?
Question–Terms 5–20
A figure of speech in which a
nonhuman thing is given
human characteristics
Answer–Terms 5–20
What is personification?
Question–Terms 5–30
A figure of speech that
compares two unlike things
not using words such as like
or as
Answer–Terms 5–30
What is a metaphor?
Question–Terms 5–40
A figure of speech that uses
exaggeration
Answer–Terms 5–40
What is hyperbole?
Question–Terms 5–50
The central message, or
main idea, of a work of
literature
Answer–Terms 5–50
What is theme?