BC English 12 Provincial Exam Poetry Terms

Give the correct poetry terms for their respective definitions.

Terms used for the BC English 12 Provincial Exam

Terms received from http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs/grade12/en/16_literary_terms.pdf

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Definition	Term
An 8-line stanza	Octave
A short witty statement or poem	Epigram
Traditional short narrative verse form, originally sung, which tells a story	Ballad
A 6-line stanza	Sestet
The sense of movement given by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	Rhythm
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words	Alliteration
The particular pattern in a type of poetry	Form
Poetry that has no regular meter or line length	Free Verse
The repeating of a particular element in a work for deliberate effect	Repitition
Refers to the number of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	Meter
Typical Shakespearean rhythmic meter	Iambic Pentameter
Type of literature that deals with rural or country life	Pastoral
A poetic "paragraph", named after the number of lines it contains	Stanza
The repetition of similar or duplicate sounds at regular intervals, usually at the end of a line of poetry	Rhyme
Usually an inscription on a tombstone, but also a name for any poem written about someone who had died	Epitaph
2 rhyming lines of verse (AA) with the same number of beats (meter)	Couplet
Words which sound like their meanings	Onomatopoeia
A direct comparison using "like" or "as"	Simile
The juxtaposition of harsh or jarring sounds in a written work - see Cacophony	Dissonance
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	Blank Verse
Form of poetry addressed to a person absent or deceased, or to some inanimate object or entity	Apostrophe
Discordant or harsh sounds which are introduced for poetic effect	Cacophony
A short poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker; originally, a poem sung to accompany a lyre, or early harp	Lyric
A long, serious and dignified lyric poem, often written "to" someone or something	Ode
A formal lament over the death of a particular person	Elegy
An extended narrative poem, often exalted or heroic in theme	Epic
A quatrain consisting of alternation 4- and then 3-stress lines	Ballad Stanza
When inanimate objects are given human-like qualities or characteristics	Personification
A direct comparison of one thing with another	Metaphor
A 4-line stanza	Quatrain
A line or lines repeated throughout a poem, usually at the end of each stanza	Refrain
A poem of 14 lines	Sonnet
A rhyme scheme that takes place in the middle of words or phrases, instead of at the end	Internal Rhyme
The repetition of vowel sounds within words	Assonance
The particular arrangement of rhymes in a poem, stated as an alphabetical sequence where the letters correspond to a particular rhyme	Rhyme Scheme
Close repetition of consonant sounds before and after different vowels	Consonance

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