Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
IEB Poetic terms and figures of speech
Questions and Correct Verified Answers
alliteration
✓ Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Allusion
✓ A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
Anadiplosis
✓ the repetition of the word or phrase at the end of a line of verse at the beginning
of the next
Apostophe
✓ addressing someone absent or dead or something non-human as if that person
or thing were present and alive and could reply to what is being said
Assonance
✓ Repetition of vowel sounds
Ballad
✓ poem with either a ABCB or ABAB rhyme scheme and a repeated refrain, which
was originally intended to be sung
blank verse
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, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
✓ unrhymed iambic pentameter
Caesura
✓ a strong pause within a line of verse
Connotations of words
✓ implied meanings of words
convention
✓ a customary or typical feature of a specific type of literary work (e.g. all sonnets
contain 14 lines)
Couplet
✓ Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Diction
✓ word choice
elegy
✓ a lyric poem written to grieve yet celebrate the life of a person who has died
epigraph
✓ a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the
theme.
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IEB Poetic terms and figures of speech
Questions and Correct Verified Answers
alliteration
✓ Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Allusion
✓ A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
Anadiplosis
✓ the repetition of the word or phrase at the end of a line of verse at the beginning
of the next
Apostophe
✓ addressing someone absent or dead or something non-human as if that person
or thing were present and alive and could reply to what is being said
Assonance
✓ Repetition of vowel sounds
Ballad
✓ poem with either a ABCB or ABAB rhyme scheme and a repeated refrain, which
was originally intended to be sung
blank verse
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, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
✓ unrhymed iambic pentameter
Caesura
✓ a strong pause within a line of verse
Connotations of words
✓ implied meanings of words
convention
✓ a customary or typical feature of a specific type of literary work (e.g. all sonnets
contain 14 lines)
Couplet
✓ Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Diction
✓ word choice
elegy
✓ a lyric poem written to grieve yet celebrate the life of a person who has died
epigraph
✓ a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the
theme.
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