Figurative Language
Sounds
Form
Language
Miscellaneous
100
repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines or stanzas
What is anaphora
100
the repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration
100
two or three syllables with a pattern of stresses
What is a foot
100
line that does not end with a pause
What is run-on line
100
the author's attitude toward the subject
What is tone
200
repetition of words or phrases at the end of lines or stanzas
What is epistrophe
200
word that imitates a sound
What is an onomatopoeia
200
a pattern of stresses in each line
What is meter
200
word choice
What is diction
200
a poem without any regular meter
What is free verse
300
writer speaks directly to a person, object, or idea
What is apostrophe
300
repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is a rhyme
300
a pattern with a weak (unstressed) syllable followed by a strong (stressed) syllable
What is an iamb (or iambic)
300
the arrangement of words
What is syntax
300
unrhymed iambic pentamenter
What is blank verse
400
statement which appears to be contradictory but which presents a truth about life
What is a paradox
400
the repetition of consonant sounds with dissimilar vowel sounds
What is consonance
400
a pattern with a strong (stressed) syllable followed by a weak (unstressed) syllable
What is trochee
400
omission of conjunctions
What is asyndeton
400
a poem with 14 lines structured in a particular way
What is a sonnet
500
substitutes something closely related for the actual term
What is metonymy
500
repetition of vowel sounds with dissimilar consonant sounds
What is assonance
500
a line with a meter of four feet
What is tetrameter
500
part of something stands for the whole
What is synecdoche
500
reference in a poem to something well known from literature or history
What is an allusion
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