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Two or more words next to each other beginning with the same consonant sound
What is alliteration?
Descriptions that evoke an image in the reader's mind
What is visual imagery?
A question asked without the intention of being answered
What is a rhetorical question?
Descriptions that evoke a sound in the reader's mind
What is auditory imagery?
The comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile?
Giving human qualities to an inanimate object
What is personification?
Using an object, idea or image to represent something deeper
What is symbolism?
Comparing two things by saying something is something else
What is a metaphor?
Exaggeration for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
What is onomatopoeia?
The paragraph structure of a poem
What is a stanza?
What is the persona?
Pattern of sounds at the end of lines in a poem
What is a rhyme scheme?
How the persona feels about the subject matter of the poem
What is tone?
Lines of a poem that are not separated by punctuation
What is enjambment?
A repeated idea or image throughout a poem
What is motif?
Repeated words or phrases at the start of consecutive lines in a poem
What is anaphora?
Repetition of 'and' to list things in a line
What is polysyndeton?
Two things put side by side to highlight their difference
What is juxtaposition?
Reference to another idea or text, often religious, cultural, historical or literary
What is an allusion?
Poem with no strict rhyme scheme or structure
What is free verse?
The story being told by a poem
What is narrative?
What is metonymy?
Part of a noun used to describe the whole noun
What is synecdoche?
Poem structured in a loop or the ending references the beginning
What is a cyclical form?