consists of two rhyming words that are consecutive or very close together in a phrase or line.
EX. “Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are”
What is close rhyme?
100
A phrase or a line repeated at intervals within a poem, especially at the end of a stanza.
What is refrain?
100
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is metaphor?
100
A language that uses words and expression with a meaning that is different than the real definition
What is Figurative Language
100
Comparing two words with exaggeration using like or as
What is Similie
200
The repetition of initial sounds in adjacent words or syllables
EX. “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping…”
The Raven-
Edgar Allen Poe
What is alliteration?
200
The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line
What is rhyme?
200
The rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line.
What is meter?
200
The basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter.usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable
What is Foot
200
A grouping of lines separated in pems
What is a Stanza
300
brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.
EX.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
What is allusion?
300
A figure of speech in which the sound of a word imitates its sense
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A literary element that evokes certain feelings and vibes in readers through words and descriptions.
What is mood?
300
A figure of speech composed of striking or exaggeration.
It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets
What is Hyperbole
300
An action that reveals or a sign for something else
What is Symbol
400
The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants; sometimes called vowel rhyme
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Robert Frost
What is assonance?
400
A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person.
What is personification?
400
A recurrent image, idea or a symbol that develops or explains a theme while a theme is a central idea or message.
What is motif?
400
Visually descriptive, or figurative language
What is Imagery
400
A poets attitude towards the poems speaker, reader, and subjets matter as interpreted by the reader
What is tone
500
A pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length.
"Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope,/Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope."
What is couplet?
500
The action of repeating something that has already been written or said
What is repetition?
500
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
What is internal rhyme?
500
Unit of meter where first syllable is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed
What is lamb
500
Used to refer to poetry that possesses more formal quality