Meter and rhythm
Figurative Language
Sound/Repetition
Poetic Syntax
MORE figurative language
100
The usual Sonnet Meter
What is Iambic Pentameter
100
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is Simile
100
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is Alliteration
100
A line that runs on into the next with no pause
What is Enjambed line
100
Directly addressing a nonhuman thing, abstraction, or person not physically present as if it could respond
What is Apostrophe
200
A unit of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is Foot
200
A direct comparison between two unlike things
What is Metaphor
200
Use of a word that refers to a noise and whose pronunciation mimics that noise
What is Onomatopoeia
200
The highest possible score on an AP english essay
What is 9
200
Use of a related object to stand for the thing actually being talked about
What is Metonymy
300
The measure of a line of structured poetry
What is Meter
300
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things or to abstractions
What is Personification
300
Repetition of similar vowel sounds
What is Assonance
300
Dr. Maxwell's first name
What is Sally
300
The host of the Jeopardy on TV
Who is Alex Trebek
400
Bestselling song from Eminem's 8 Mile
What is Lose Yourself
400
Metaphor making a direct comparison to a historical or literary event, character, myth or biblical reference
What is Allusion
400
The middle name of Iain Pollock
What is Haley
400
A line that clearly pauses at its conclusion
What is End-stopped line
400
Repetition of words at the beginning of lines
What is Anaphora
500
A poetic foot of two syllables with the stress on the second
What is Iamb
500
Overstatement or exaggeration
What is Hyperbole
500
Repetition of similar consonant sounds
What is Consonance
500
A pause WITHIN a line, usually marked by punctuation
What is Caesura
500
Use of a part for the whole
What is Synecdoche
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