English 1B/Holper

POETIC TERMS PRETEST KEY

1) What is onomatopoeia?

Answer: this is the use of word that imitates the sound it describes

ex: bang, whack, buzz, screech

2) Poetry that usually is unrhymed and lacks a traditional metric presentation

Answer: free verse

3) What is a stanza?

Answer: a paragraph in poetry

two lines: couplet

three lines: tercet

four lines: quatrain

4) What is internal rhyme?

Answer: rhyme within a line

Ex: There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold.

5) What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds called?

ex: With blade, with bloody blameful blade, he bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.

Answer: Alliteration

6) What is taking animate or inanimate things and personifying them called?

Answer: Personification

7) What is assonance?

Answer: this is the repetition of vowel sounds with dissimilar consonant sounds.

Emily Dickinson uses assonance in this line, "The mountain at a given distance. The I sound is repeated in the words "given" and "distance," in the context of dissimilar consonant sounds g-v and d-s.

8) What is unrhymed iambic pentameter called?

Answer: blank verse

9) What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words or accented syllables called?

Ex: Emily Dickinson uses consonance in the following lines:

But if he asks where you are hid

Until tomorrow,--happy letter

Gesture, coquette, and shake your head

Answer: consonance

10) What does a sonnet consist of?

Answer: It's a poem of four stanzas (three quatrains and a couplet), 14 lines of iambic pentameter, with a typical rhyme scheme ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG

11) Give examples of the following types of rhymes:

Exact: hip slip

Slant: wind kind

Identical: same word repeated

12) What is a combination of a stressed and unstressed syllables called?

Answer: a foot

Two types of rising feet

˘΄ (about): iamb

˘˘΄ (in a boat) anapest

Two types of falling feet

΄ ˘ (double) trochee

΄ ΄ ˘ (endlessly) dactyl

Non-stressed

˘ ˘ spondee

13) What is meter?

Answer: the number of feet per line

one: monometer

two: dimeter

three: trimeter

four: tetrameter

five: pentameter

six: hexameter

seven: heptameter

14) What are the rhyming patterns at the end of lines called?

Ex.: ABAB etc.

Answer: rhyme scheme

15) What is scansion?

Answer: marking the feet and meter for a poem to determine the combined foot/meter pattern

16) What is a poem that consists of six stanzas of six lines each, with a repeated pattern of lines, ending in a tercet?

Answer: sestina

17) What is a villanelle?

Answer: another repeated line poem, like a sestina. Here it's a 19 line poem of five tercets (three line stanzas) and a closing quatrain (four lines). Two lines in the poem get repeated as follows

A1, B, A2

A, B, A1

A, B, A2

A, B, A1

A, B, A2

A, B, A1, A2

Scan the following lines for the foot/meter combination:

18)

Tell fortune of her blindness

Tell nature of decay

Tell friendship of unkindness

Tell justice of delay

Answer: iambic trimeter

19)

Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;

My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy.

Answer: iambic pentameter

20)

Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill

Appear in writing or in judging ill

Answer: iambic pentameter