The repetition of words that begin with the same letter or sound.
What is alliteration?
100
The arrangement of words and phrases to create grammatically correct sentences in a language.
What is syntax?
100
A figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is the same as another otherwise unrelated object.
What is metaphor?
100
The term for a unit of meter (e.g., an iamb).
What is a foot?
100
A poem by Lewis Carroll.
What is "The Jabberwocky"?
200
The repetition of words with similar vowel sounds (e.g., "love bug" or "summer fun").
What is assonance?
200
When a line does NOT end at the end of a grammatical unit (sentence or clause).
What is enjambment?
200
A literary device in which characters or events in a poem represent or symbolize specific ideas and concepts in a one-to-one correlation.
What is allegory?
200
A four line stanza.
What is a quatrain?
200
"The Road Not Taken"
What is a poem by Robert Frost?
300
The history of words and their origins.
What is etymology?
300
The creation of lines and line breaks in a poem.
What is lineation?
300
A trope that plays on multiple meanings of a word.
What is a pun?
300
An example of this meter and line length would be "On either side the river lie / Long fields of barley and of rye, / That clothe the wold and meet the sky; / And through the field the road runs by"
What is an example of iambic tetrameter?
300
"Parsley"
What is a poem by Rita Dove?
400
A word that sounds like what it means (e.g., "crackle" or "pop").
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines or clauses.
What is anaphora?
400
A figure of speech that makes a reference to people, places, events, literary works, myths, or works of art, either directly or by implication.
What is allusion?
400
A foot comprised of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllable.
What is a dactyl?
400
A poem by Yusef Komunyakaa.
What is "Facing It"?
500
A newly invented or newly coined word.
What is a neologism?
500
When a poet alters proper grammatical order.
What is syntactic inversion?
500
A figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something (e.g., "the church" for a congregation or "a hand" for a worker).
What is synecdoche?
500
An example of this meter and line length would be "And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold / And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea / When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee."
What is an example of anapestic tetrameter?
500
"Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part"