Don't be so conceited!
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines in a poem, typically found in sonnets.
What is end rhyme?
The repeated use of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
A sonnet contains this many lines.
What is 14?
This type of imagery appeals to the sense of sight.
What is visual?
This term refers to the emotions and ideas a word suggests beyond its literal meaning, often used by poets to add deeper layers to their work.
Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" is written in this type of verse, meaning it lacks consistent rhyme or meter.
Free verse
Lift/Sing, Fate/Lake, Stop/Hot are examples of slant rhyme, but also this literary device.
What is assonance?
This type of sonnet is named after an English playwright and consists of three quatrains and a couplet.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
Imagery that evokes the sense of taste, like describing a sweet or bitter flavor, is called this.
What is gustatory?
"The wind whispered through the trees," the wind is an example of this literary device.
What is personification?
A rhyme made of words that sound alike due to similar consonant and vowel patterns, but are not true rhymes, such as "orange" and "door hinge" (in some accents).
What is slant rhyme?
We shall cry/We shall laugh/We shall celebrate is an example of this literary device.
What is anaphora?
The “turn” or shift in a sonnet, often signaling a change in tone or argument.
What is a volta?
This kind of imagery appeals to the sense of touch, like describing rough bark or a cold breeze.
What is tactile?
In Sonnet 73, Shakespeare compares himself to this part of a day, symbolizing the end of life.
What is twilight or dusk?
In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” this type of rhyme occurs within the line: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.”
What is internal rhyme?
The sounds in the idiom: “The early bird gets the worm” are an example of this literary device.
What is consonance?
In the Shakespearean sonnet, the final two lines are called this.
What is a couplet?
The smell of fresh rain or flowers in a poem is an example of this sensory imagery.
What is olfactory?
In Emily Dickinson’s "Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me," Death is personified as this.
What is a driver?
This is a stanza made up of four lines; in sonnets, their lines typically contain end rhymes.
What is a quatrain?
This poetic device lists a series of people, things, or events to create a cumulative effect, famously used by Walt Whitman.
What is catalog?
This rhyme scheme is typical of a Shakespearean sonnet.
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Shakespeare uses visual imagery to compare his mistress’s eyes to this, but says they are “nothing like” it.
What is "the sun"?