Definitions Of Certain Poetry Terms

1. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of....

Alliteration

Assonance

Cliche

Parable

2. When using a word that has other associations in addition to its basic meaning is called a....

Connotation

Denotation

Hyperbole

Oxymoron

3. "Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground" is an example of....

Assonance

Alliteration

Hyperbole

Parallelism

4. Which of these below, best defines a ballad?

A story in a song, a saga of a past affair (may be heroic etc.)

Poem that combines the words and the shapes of words to show the theme or moral

Unrhymed poetry with a meter based on five iambic feet in each line

A lyric poem full of dignified feeling often addressed to some person or thing

5. A concrete poem...

Combines words the make shapes representing the theme or moral

Doesn't use any rhymes, metre or rhythm

Expresses a character's thoughts

Shows a hint or symbol of future events

6. "Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze" is an example of....

Analogy

Personification

Colloquial

Jargon

7. Representing ideas or feelings that have little or no resemblance to physical things is called ______.

Abstract

Allusion

Fantasy

Paradox

8. An anecdote is....

Short account of some interesting or amusing incident or event

A word, phrase or clause that is referred to by a pronoun or relative adverb

A short, simple story used to teach a truth or moral lesson

The representation of a thing or idea as a person or having human qualities

9. An antecedent action is....

Short account of some interesting or amusing incident or event

A word, phrase or clause that is referred to by a pronoun or relative adverb

A short, simple story used to teach a truth or moral lesson

The representation of a thing or idea as a person or having human qualities

10. A colloquial is used mainly and purposfully in...

An informal conversation

Story

Essay

Lyric