IB Poetry

What is the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals called?

• Synecdoche

• Pathetic fallacy

• Sibilance

• Syntax

What is the term for the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem?

• Verse

• Rhyme scheme

• Mood

• Speaker

Which figure of speech involves the deliberate creation of strong 's' sounds to produce a hissing sound?

• Sibilance

• Oxymoron

• Understatement

• Paradox

What is the term for the voice of the poem, or the persona who speaks the words of the poem?

• Speaker

• Syntax

• Verse

• Mood

Which figure of speech involves a part made to represent the whole or vice versa?

• Understatement

• Synecdoche

• Pathetic fallacy

• Rhetorical question

What is the emotional effect that the text creates for the audience called?

• Tone

• Theme

• Mood

• Style

What is a symbol in literature?

• A person, thing, idea, or action that stands for something else

• A type of rhyme

• A form of exaggeration

• A type of imagery

What is the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is?

• Oxymoron

• Understatement

• Sibilance

• Rhyme scheme

What genre is mandatory for HL students to study during Part II: Detailed Study?

• Plays

• Novels

• Poetry

• Short stories

What is the term for a comparison using 'like' or 'as' in poetry?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification