Poetry
Poetry II
Other Devices and
Literary Terms
Structure/Plot Elements
POV/Narration/
Character
100

Rhyme found at the end of lines of poetry.

What is End Rhyme

100

A sound device that mimics the sound that words make when spoken.

What is onomatopoeia

100

The refutation of the counterargument.

What is a Rebuttal

100

A narrative, drama, or poem that does not follow a linear, chronological sequence; it may incorporate flashbacks, stream of consciousness, and other techniques to develop a story.

What is Non-Linear structure

100

A credible, trustworthy, and consistent storyteller.

What is a Reliable Narrator

200

Rhyme that is near or oblique, Words within or at the end of lines which almost rhyme.

What is Slant Rhyme

200
A repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry.

What is Assonance

200

A commonly used phrase that signifies something very different than its literal meaning.

What is a Idiom

200

A change in character’s thinking, insight, or another literary choice that creates an emphasis or reveals an insight.

What is a Shift

200

A storyteller who lacks credibility because of bias, deception, inexperience, cognitive impairment, lack of information, or other factor that undermines the accuracy of a narrative.

What is a Unreliable Narrator

300

Reoccurring or repeating words, sounds, phrases, clauses, or lines in a text used to create emphasis.

What is Refrain

300

A repetition of consonant sounds within a line or lines of poetry.

What is Consonance

300

A phrase or assertion that appears to contradict itself (but the contradiction itself may have its own meaning).

What is a Paradox

300

A literary character’s struggle with psychological, emotional, moral or other conflict within the character’s mind.

What is Internal Conflict

300

Told in 3rd person, but from one character’s perspective.

What is 3rd Person Limited

400

Two successive lines that rhyme in poetry.

What is a couplet

400

The rhyme of a poem which is based on syllables.

What is Meter

400

The noun the pronoun is referring to.

What is a Antecedent 

400

The placement of things side by side for the purpose of comparison

What is Juxtaposition

400

Told in 3rd person from an all-knowing perspective.

What is 3rd Person Omniscient

500

A closed form poem made up of 14 lines in an Iambic Pentameter.

What is a sonnet

500

A basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables.

What is Foot

500

A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.

What is Iamb

500

A temporary departure from the main point or story.

What is a Digression

500

A character who remains unchanged throughout a narrative or drama.

What is a Static Character

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