English Exam Review
Alliteration - Answer-the use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line
of verse
Caesura - Answer-break or pause in a line of poetry
Couplet - Answer-2 line stanza
Epic - Answer-long, narrative poem in elevated style, celebrates a hero
Hyperbole - Answer-extravagant exaggeration
Irony - Answer-the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Paradox - Answer-a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality
expresses a possible truth.
Personification - Answer-(good angel, bad angel of abstraction) the act of attributing human
characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Alliteration - Answer-the use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line
of verse
Caesura - Answer-break or pause in a line of poetry
Couplet - Answer-2 line stanza
Epic - Answer-long, narrative poem in elevated style, celebrates a hero
Hyperbole - Answer-extravagant exaggeration
Irony - Answer-the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Paradox - Answer-a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality
expresses a possible truth.
Personification - Answer-(good angel, bad angel of abstraction) the act of attributing human
characteristics to abstract ideas etc.