UNSEEN POETRY TEST WITH TERMS EXPLAINED #15
Onomatopoeia - correct answer The imitation of natural sounds in word form
Hyperbole - correct answer A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for
emphasis or effect.
Repetition - correct answer When one or more words are repeated to show urgency or
importance
Personification - correct answer When an author gives an idea, object or animal
qualities or traits of a person
Alliteration - correct answer The repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more
neighbouring words or syllables
Simile - correct answer A comparison between two unlike things that have something in
common. It always uses the words like or as to make a comparison
Metaphor - correct answer Comparing tow unlike things that have something in
common. The comparison is made without the use of like or as
Assonance - correct answer The repetition of vowel sounds in adjoining words, or words
near to each other
Consonance - correct answer The repetition of consonant sounds in adjoining words or
words near to each other
Euphemism - correct answer An alternative of saying something unpleasant or offensive
to make it sound nice or good
Oxymoron - correct answer A figure of speech composed of a pair of neighbouring
contradictory words (often within a sentence)
Rhyme - correct answer The occurrence of the same or similar sounds at the end of two
or more words
Conceit - correct answer An extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a
poetic passage or entire poem
Enjambent - correct answer The running-over of one sentence from one line of poetry to
the next
Pathetic fallacy - correct answer A term used to identify writing that falsely endows
nonhuman things with human intentions and feelings such as "angry clouds" and "sad
trees"
Onomatopoeia - correct answer The imitation of natural sounds in word form
Hyperbole - correct answer A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for
emphasis or effect.
Repetition - correct answer When one or more words are repeated to show urgency or
importance
Personification - correct answer When an author gives an idea, object or animal
qualities or traits of a person
Alliteration - correct answer The repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more
neighbouring words or syllables
Simile - correct answer A comparison between two unlike things that have something in
common. It always uses the words like or as to make a comparison
Metaphor - correct answer Comparing tow unlike things that have something in
common. The comparison is made without the use of like or as
Assonance - correct answer The repetition of vowel sounds in adjoining words, or words
near to each other
Consonance - correct answer The repetition of consonant sounds in adjoining words or
words near to each other
Euphemism - correct answer An alternative of saying something unpleasant or offensive
to make it sound nice or good
Oxymoron - correct answer A figure of speech composed of a pair of neighbouring
contradictory words (often within a sentence)
Rhyme - correct answer The occurrence of the same or similar sounds at the end of two
or more words
Conceit - correct answer An extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a
poetic passage or entire poem
Enjambent - correct answer The running-over of one sentence from one line of poetry to
the next
Pathetic fallacy - correct answer A term used to identify writing that falsely endows
nonhuman things with human intentions and feelings such as "angry clouds" and "sad
trees"
