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The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of neighboring words.
What is alliteration?
Words which imitate the sound they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia?
Sentences in a poem.
What are lines?
Words that create a picture in the reader’s mind or appeal to the reader’s five senses.
What is imagery?
Verse without regular meter or rhyme.
What is free verse?
The repetition of vowel sounds (within stressed syllables) of neighboring words.
What is assonance?
It is a literary device that hints or suggests future events, adding suspense to a story and could either be direct or indirect.
What is foreshadowing?
Paragraphs in a poem.
What are stanzas or verses?
A surprising, interesting, or amusing contradiction, or suggest the opposite of their meaning.
What is irony?
A Japanese form of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively.
What is haiku?
The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
A literary element in which a character struggles with ideas, desires, emotions; A DECISION whether or not to do something
What is Internal Conflict?
The combination of two lines of poetry.
What is a couplet?
A figure of speech in which a part of something represents the whole, or vice versa.
What is synecdoche? (pronounced si-NEK-duh-kee)
An extended narrative poem that includes heroic events.
What is an epic poem?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning and ending in neighboring words; the vowel sounds in the words will not sound alike.
What is consonance?
The atmosphere of a narrative that is created by the setting and actions of the characters
What is mood?
The combination of four lines of poetry.
What is quatrain?
A figure of speech that combines two or more words with opposing meanings to create a contradiction.
What is an oxymoron?
Fourteen lines of iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout the work.
What is anaphora?
Poetry concerned with the shortness of life and need to act in or enjoy the present.
What is “Carpe Diem” poetry?
(Carpe diem means “seize the day.”)
The continuation of a sentence without a pause into the next line(s) of poetry.
What is enjambment?
A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g. She broke his car and his heart.)
What is Zeugma?
A poem using unrhymed iambic pentameter (or a regular meter).
What is blank verse?