Poetry Test -Faith Christian

What is an object that stands for something?

a symbol

What is two opposite or contradictory ideas or terms combined into one statement?

paradox

a unit of poetry consisting of a group of related verses?

stanza

A figure of speech using intentional exaggeration or overstatement for special effect?

Hyperbole

The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning?

onomatopoeia

A question to which no answer is expected?

a rhetorical question

What terms compares two unlike things WITHOUT USING LIKE OR AS?

metaphor

Arrangement of stressed and unstressed sounds;the beat of poetry?

rhythm

Repetition of a sound at the end of a line of poetry?

rhyme

A gorup of words or lines recurring regularly at the end of stanzas?

refrain

A figure of speech giving human qualities to something non-human?

personification

A figure of speech using unlike things and comparing through the use of words such LIKE OR AS?

simile

Combination of two contradictory words?

oxymoron

Words that look like they should rhyme but do not!

eye rhyme

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

alliteration

Ballad

a narrative poem intended to be sung

Elegy

a poem written to lament the dead

Narrative poem

a poem written to tell a story

Limerick

a humerous five-line poem with a set rhyme scheme

Lyric Poem

a poem with intense emotion

Study Psalm 18

Metaphors used in first stanza
Personification in second
Hyperbole is in the third
It is a lyric poem

Study Eldorado by Poe

Know your rhyme sceme and tone and theme

Gwendolyn Grooks poem about being cool -is an example of what?

lyric poem
uses alliteration
has internal rhyme
the tone is indifferent
the theme is being cool doesn't mean you have a good life

The Sound of Night is full of what type of devices?

onomatopoeia