Elements of Poetry Test 72 pts. e.

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each

word
Match each word to its definition.
f. the act of doing or performing again
1. allegory g. the repetition of similar vowels in successive
2. alliteration words
3. allusion h. the property of sounding harmonious
4. anthropomorphism i. using words that imitate the sound they denote
5. assonance j. correspondence in the final sounds of two or more
6. aural lines
7. ballad k. an interval during which a recurring sequence
8. cadence occurs
9. consonance l. a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a
10. diction poem
11. epic m. a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
12. foreshadowing n. a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
13. form o. a narrative poem of popular origin
14. free verse p. a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
15. gustatory q. an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three
16. haiku short lines
17. hyperbole r. the concrete representation of a sense impression,
18. Imagery feeling, or idea that triggers our imaginative ere-
19. irony enactment of a sensory experience. Images may be
20. metaphor s. something seen
21. ode t. something heard
22. olfactory u. something felt
23. onomatopoeia v. something smelled
24. personification w. something tasted
25. poetry x. poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
26. repetition y. extravagant exaggeration
27. rhyme z. incongruity between what might be expected and
28. rhythm what occurs
29. satire aa. witty language used to convey insults or scorn
30. simile bb. something visible that represents something
31. sonnet invisible
32. stanza cc. passing reference or indirect mention
33. symbol dd. selection of specific words
34. tactile ee. the arrangement of words, lines, verses, rhymes,
35. theriomorphism and other features.
36. visual ff. A rhythmic change in the inflection of sounds from
words being spoken. Sometimes referred to the
flow of words.
a. has an overall central theme or idea within each gg. a short moral story
poem hh. the act of providing vague advance indications
b. a figure of speech expressing a resemblance ii. denotes the transformation of humans getting
between things qualities of inanimate objects.
c. a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal jj. denotes the transformation of human getting
similarity animal qualities.
d. attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas