Example from "Otis" by Jay-Z and Kanye West: "Welcome to Havana, smoking Cubanas with Castro in cabanas."
What is Allusion
100
Rhyme in the final syllables of a verse: the most common form of rhyme.
What is End Rhyme
100
A directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with “like,” “as,” or “than.”
What is Similie
100
The use of words in a literary work.
What is Diction
100
A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. It may be used for either serious or comic effect.
What is Hyperbole
200
An example: "Shelly sells seashells..."
What is Alliteration
200
Rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronunciation. Examples include “watch” and “match,” and “love” and “move.”
What is Eye Rhyme
200
Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme.
What is Stanza
200
Described by adjectives, and the possibilities are nearly endless.
What is Tone
200
Examples are “buzz,” “hiss,” or “honk.”
What is Onomatopoeia
300
A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work.
What is Allusion
300
Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end.
What is Internal Rhyme
300
Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else.
What is Symbol
300
The images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work.
What is Imagery
300
A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics.
What is Personification
400
A figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present.
What is Apostrophe
400
Examples: "True Blue" or "Mumbo Jumbo."
What is Close Rhyme
400
Examples of this are rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia.
What are Devices of Sound
400
The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning.
What is Tone
400
A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like “as,” “like,” or “than.”
What is Metaphor
500
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
What is Assonance
500
Produced by dividing a word at the line break of a poem to make a rhyme with the end word of another line.
What is Broken Rhyme
500
The ordering of words into patterns or sentences. If a poet shifts words from the usual word order, you know you are dealing with an older style of poetry or a poet who wants to shift emphasis onto a particular word.
What is Syntax
500
The term usually refers to words in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowels that precede them are different.
What is Consonance
500
The main thought expressed by a work. In poetry, it is the abstract concept which is made concrete through its representation in person, action, and image in the work.