Sound Devices
Forms of Poems
Writing Style
Figures of Speech
Hodgepodge
100
The repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
100
A 14-line poem with a particular rhyme scheme
What is a sonnet?
100
Language no longer in use
What is archaic language?
100
When something is described by comparing it to something else, using the words like or as
What is a simile?
100
A narration limited to what a single character can think, see, know, or judge
What is limited omniscient point of view?
200
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
200
Any poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
200
Confusing words and phrases used in an occupation, trade, or field of study
What is jargon?
200
A form of metaphor that gives human attributes to something that is not human
What is personification?
200
Placing two different ideas or things beside each other for the purpose of comparing or contrasting
What is juxtaposition?
300
Words that imitate the sound of the words they define
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A short poem that tells the emotions and thoughts of the speaker
What is a lyric poem?
300
Biased writing with extreme examples meant to sway an audience
What is propaganda?
300
Describing one thing by comparing it with another directly (without using the words like or as)
What is a metaphor?
300
Writing structure where different sentences, paragraphs, or stanzas are organized in the same manner
What is parallelism or parallel structure?
400
Repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the ends of words
What is consonance?
400
A poem without any defined meter or rhyme
What is a free verse poem?
400
A literary technique that involves asking an obvious question that does not need to be answered
What is rhetorical question?
400
A deliberate exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
400
A word or phrase in a work of literature that appeals directly to the reader's taste, touch, hearing, smell, or sight
What is imagery?
500
The use of words that combines harsh, unmelodious sounds
What is cacophony?
500
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; used often by Shakespeare
What is blank verse?
500
The author's implicit attitude toward the reader or the places, people, and events in a work of literature
What is tone?
500
A part of an object is used to represent the whole (e.g. "Nice wheels!")
What is synecdoche?
500
An idea or expression that has become overused or trite
What is a cliche?
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