Structural
Provide 3 perfect rhymes for the word “lean”
mean, glean, ravine, dean, seen, green etc.
What are the 2 primary functions of repetition?
Emphasis and memory
Imagery allows the audience to imagine the scenario by appealing to the 5 senses. What are they?
sight, smell, taste, feel, sound
True or False, this is an example of personification. “you’re barking up the wrong tree”
False, it's zoomorphism (giving people animal qualities)
Simile uses "like" or "as"
What’s the difference between repetition and refrain?
Once established, a refrain will at some point subvert.
How do you spell the technique where words sound like the noise they represent?
Onomatopoeia
What is the function of a metaphor or simile?
To create a comparison to something the reader might be more familiar with.
Match the symbol to the meaning
dove, gold, diamond
success, peace, strength
dove = peace, gold = success, diamond = strength
What's the word for paragraphs in a poem
stanza
Which technique involves a repeated symbolic gesture throughout a text (e.g a melody)
Motif
Is "chair" and "celery" an example of alliteration?
No, the "c" sounds are different
“Oh no! The fire station burned down!” What technique is present in this sentence?
Irony
What’s the difference between a metaphor and an extended metaphor?
An extended metaphor will appear multiple times across the piece, or encompass the piece entirely.
In poetry, the protagonist or poem narrator is called the...
Persona
Metre is the strategic combination and pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. How many iambs are in iambic pentametre, and what bodily function does it sound like?
5 iambs, and it sounds like a heart beat
Assonance and consonance are the uses of repeated vowel or consonant sounds. What is the important difference between assonance/consonance and alliteration?
Alliteration must be at the start of the word. Assonance/Consonance can appear anywhere in the word.
The poetic word for “exaggeration” is…
Hyperbole
When the author creates a figure of speech using a known reference from a different context, it’s called an… (e.g. chocolate is my Achilles heel)
Allusion
What's the name given to pairs of metres? Hint, it's also a part of the body
Feet
Caesura and Enjambment, one is the continuation of a sentence over a line, one is the disruption of the sentence within the line. Which is which?
Enjambment = sentence continues across line breaks
Caesura = pauses within the line.
What is the tonal difference between cacophony and euphony?
Cacophony sounds chaotic, loud or aggressive, euphony sounds peaceful, calm or soft
Synecdoche is when we use a part of something to represent the whole. Which is NOT an example of synecdoche
referring to champagne as “bubbles”, many “hands” make light work, it’s raining cats and dogs
Raining cats and dogs,
Bubbles are part of champagne, hands are attached to the workers
Referring to the King or Queen as the “Crown” or a group of lawyers as “a bunch of suits” are examples of
Metonymy or Synecdoche
Mickey Mouse is an example of
Anthropomorphism (giving an animal human-like qualities)