College Questions and Verified Answers
What type of poem usually is in 1st person, is short, and expresses the thoughts
and feelings of a single speaker? - ✔✔Lyric Poem
What type of poem is a series of events and the narrator tells the story -
✔✔Narrative Poem
What type of poem has the voice of an imaginary character(s) speaking directly -
✔✔Dramatic Poem
What type of poem is written to teach a body of knowledge, is a lesson? -
✔✔Didactic Poem
For Spatial setting, what is usually being described? - ✔✔A certain place
In Temporal setting, what is being described? - ✔✔A date or era, time of day,
year, or a certain time in life.
Tone: - ✔✔The qualities of the language a speaker uses in social situation or in a
poem, also the speakers intended effect
Theme: - ✔✔Is an idea implied by all of the elements of the poem working
together
Denotation: - ✔✔The dictionary definition of a word
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, Connotation: - ✔✔an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal
or primary meaning.
Concrete Words: - ✔✔Words we can immediately percieve with our sense.
Abstract Words: - ✔✔express ideas or concepts
What is an examples of an Implied Metaphor? - ✔✔"oh, my love has red petals,
and sharp thorns"
- An assumption that one this is another, no connective or to be verb is used.
Why are symbols used? - ✔✔Are used to have a range of reference beyond
literal meaning, while using words or phrases.
What is a Traditional Symbol? - ✔✔Objects and acts that have acquired on
accepted value in our minds before a poet cites them
What is a Inverted Symbol? - ✔✔When poems create a symbol out of a thing,
action, or event that has no previous agreed upon symbolic significance
What is a Symbolic Poem? - ✔✔When symbols used in a poem depart from its
usual meaning.
What is End Rhyme and give an example - ✔✔Last two or more lines rhyme with
each other
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