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The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of neighboring words.
What is ALLITERATION
The repetitive patterns of sounds created in language with stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is RHYTHM
Sentences in a poem.
What is LINE
This is a comparison of two things using like or as.
Verse without regular meter or rhyme.
What is FREE VERSE
The repetition of vowel sounds (within stressed syllables) of neighboring words.
ASSONANCE
Premeasured patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is METER
Paragraphs in a poem.
What is STANZAS
Words that create a picture in the reader’s mind or appeal to the reader’s five senses.
What is IMAGERY
A Japanese form of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively.
What is a HAIKU
The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.
What is ONOMATOPOEIA
A two or three syllable unit of meter.
What is FOOT
The combination of two lines of poetry.
What is a COUPLET
A surprising, interesting, or amusing contradiction, or suggest the opposite of their meaning.
What is IRONY
An extended narrative poem that includes heroic events.
What is an EPIC POEM
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning and ending in neighboring words; the vowel sounds in the words will not sound alike.
What is CONSONANCE
A 10-syllable (five feet) line that uses an unstressed/stressed pattern; it is the most common kind of meter in English.
What is IAMBIC PENTAMETER
The combination of four lines of poetry.
What is a QUATRAIN
An exaggeration
What is HYPERBOLE
Fourteen lines of iambic pentameter.
What is a SONNET
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout the work.
What is ANAPHORA
A pause within a line of poetry, used for effect.
What is CAESURA
The continuation of a sentence without a pause into the next line(s) of poetry.
What is ENJAMBMENT
A figure of speech in which a part of something represents the whole, or vice versa.
What is SYNECDOCHE? (pronounced si-NEK-duh-kee)
A poem using unrhymed iambic pentameter (or a regular meter).
What is BLANK VERSE