Sound Patterns
This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words.
What is alliteration?
This has three types, including iambic, trochaic, and spondaic.
What is a foot?
This type of poem consists of 14 lines in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
This is a literary device that the author describes an animal object or idea as if it was a person
What is a personification?
In a song, this is referred to as a chorus, the repetition of a phrase at regular intervals
What is a refrain?
These are the two terms for the repetition of vowels and the repetition of consonants.
What is assonance and consonance?
This is a sudden break in a line of poetry called.
What is a caesura?
This type of free verse poem tells a story.
What is a ballad?
“I ate a hundred pounds of food during Thanksgiving dinner” is an example of this literary device.
What is hyperbole?
This is a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry.
What is a caesura?
“My words like silent raindrops fell.” is an example of this sound pattern.
What is assonance?
This has 7 feet within the line.
What is heptameter?
This type of poem has an “italian” and a “shakespearean” form
What is a sonnet?
"Elise finally lured Adam into her web" is an example of this type of literary device, that is not exactly stated.
What is an implied metaphor?
I think I had never seen
A verse as beautiful as a flower.
The second line is an example of this line structure.
What is an enjambment?
This has traditionally been used at the end of lines, but has since been adapted to occur within a line of poetry.
What is Rhyme?
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Dust of Snow by Robert Frost has examples of this type of feet.
What is a iambic dimeter?
Delightful display
Snowdrops bow their pure white heads
To the sun's glory.
This is an example of what ancient form of poetry.
What is a haiku?
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" is an example of contrasting concepts often used in literature.
What is antithesis?
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
These two lines of Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare is example of this device.
What is a couplet?