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The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of neighboring words.
What is alliteration?
The repetitive patterns of sounds created in language with stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
Sentences in a poem.
What are lines?
This is a comparison of two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
Verse without regular meter or rhyme.
Words that give non-human things human characteristics or traits.
What is personification?
Considered "America's Poet".
Who is Walt Whitman?
The repetition of vowel sounds (within stressed syllables) of neighboring words.
What is assonance?
Premeasured patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
What are stanzas or verses?
Words that create a picture in the reader’s mind or appeal to the reader’s five senses.
What is imagery?
A Japanese form of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively.
What is a haiku?
A type of irony in that seems contradictory, but expresses a truth.
What is a paradox?
Had an affair with his wife's student, stole a homework assignment and was the subject of a racy novel entitled "The Professor."
Who is Constantine Heger?
The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
A two or three syllable unit of meter.
What is a foot (or feet)?
The combination of two lines in poetry.
A surprising, interesting, or amusing contradiction, or suggest the opposite of their meaning.
An extended narrative poem that includes heroic events.
What is an epic poem?
Words that look like they should rhyme, but they do not.
The woman who was envied by angels, killed in a castle by the sea.
Who is Annabel Lee?
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout the work.
What is anaphora?
A 10-syllable (five feet) line that uses an unstressed/stressed pattern; it is the most common kind of meter in English.
What is iambic pentameter?
The combination of four lines of poetry.
What is a quatrain?
An obvious and deliberate exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
Fourteen lines of iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
The type of irony in which the audience/readers know something the character do not.
What is dramatic irony?
Who is Christina Rosetti?
Bright night, a full moon above.
We will stay today and then we must go.
What is an internal rhyme?
The repetition of words at the end of clauses.
What is epistrophe?
Structure of Poe's "To The River."
What is a sonnet?
Waiting for a sign
To smash the silence with the brick of self-control
What is personification?
OR
What is alliteration?
The "turn" which falls in the middle of a sonnet.
What is a volta?
Who is Stephen King?
The author of:
Manfully, fearlessly,
The day of trial bear,
For gloriously, victoriously,
Can courage quell despair!
Who is Charlotte Bronte?