the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration/
100
close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse.
What is rhyme?
100
a poem whose primary function is to express a state of mind or a powerful emotion
What is lyric?
100
a directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with 'like' or 'as' or 'than'.
What is a simile?
100
the sensory details of a work
What is imagery?
200
the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. ' A land laid waste with all its young men slain."
What is assonance?
200
the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is rhythm?
200
a form of poetry that traditionally follows strict rules of metre, rhyme, structure, and length. It has fourteen lines, ten syllables per line, and a formal rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
200
something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else
What is a symbol?
200
a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression:e.g. wise fool
What is oxymoron?
300
the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words usually found at the end of words where the vowels preceding them are different.
What is consonance?
300
usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme
What is stanza?
300
a poem that tells a story and is put to music and/or has iambic metre?
What is a ballad?
300
a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term
What is metaphor?
300
a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings
What is pun?
400
a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones.
What is cacophony?
400
a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza.
What is refrain?
400
a poem that is about death
What is an elegy or epitaph?
400
a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics
What is personification?
400
a form of of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole or names an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself
What is metonymy or synecdoche?
500
a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate.
What is euphony?
500
the first eight lines in a Petrarchan sonnet
What is octave?
500
a poem in praise of something
What is an ode?
500
writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule.