"I Like the Sound of That" -Rascal Flatts
A literary device in which a series of words begin with the same consonant sound
What is alliteration?
The metrical unit in poetry.
What is foot?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to a nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
Repetition of conjunctions in close succession
What is polysyndeton?
The expression of an idea through the negation of its opposite.
What is litotes?
A literary device in which the repetition of similar vowel sounds takes place in two or more words in proximity to each other within a line of poetry or prose.
What is assonance?
Shakespeare's preferred meter.
What is iambic pentameter?
A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer’s style.
What is parody?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadow?
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
What is synecdoche?
The repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words
What is consonance?
A foot in which the first syllable is stressed and the second is unstressed.
What is trochee?
A statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth.
What is paradox?
Using the same pattern of words
What is parallel structure?
When the structure and/or content of a statement makes its meaning unclear, leaving it open to multiple possible interpretations.
What is ambiguity?
A mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds.
What is cacophony?
A line of poetry containing six metrical feet.
What is hexameter?
To call attention to something by specifically saying that you will not mention it.
What is paralipsis?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
What is anaphora?
A literary device that uses one word to refer to two or more different things, in more than one way.
What is zeugma?
The use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create.
What is euphony?
The meter of a line that has four poetic feet. Each foot beginning with a stressed syllable, followed by two unstressed syllables.
What is dactylic tetrameter?
The use of indirect and circumlocutory speech or writing.
What is periphrasis?
A figure of speech in which the grammar of one phrase is inverted in the following phrase
What is chiasmus?
A fanciful metaphor, especially a highly elaborate or extended metaphor in which an unlikely, far-fetched, or strained comparison is made between two things.
What is metaphysical conceit?