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repeated sounds at the beginning of each word
What is alliteration?
Girl enters forest. Leaves with confidence, independence, and a body count.
What is Little Red Cap?
...their several sweating, panting beasts, laden for a long, hard trek, following the guide and boy to the stables; courteous, confident; oh, and with gifts for the King and Queen of here – Herod, me
What is Queen Herod?
That’s him pushing the stone up the hill, the jerk. I call it a stone – it’s nearer the size of a kirk.
What is Mrs Sisyphus?
I’m foul mouthed now, foul tongued, yellow fanged.
What is Medusa?
a stanza with exactly three lines
What is a tercet?
Repeated consonant sounds (e.g. /k/, /g/, etc.)
What is consonance?
repeated vowel sounds (e.g. /a/, /e/, etc.)
What is assonance?
14-lined poem with a rhyming couplet at the end
What is a sonnet?
Name this technique:
glass, goblet, golden chalice, drank.
What is aesyndeton?
word for sounds like /p/ and /b/
What is a plosive?
I’m fond, nereids and nymphs, unlike some, of the pig, of the tusker, the snout, the boar and the swine.
What is Circe?
I breathed his stench
What is Mrs Lazarus?
What is this technique?
"Do it. Spare not one."
What caesura?
repeated /s/ sounds
What is sibilance?
Bad synopsis:
Man discovers the hard way that birds make it look easier than it is.
What is Mrs Icarus?
Bad synopsis:
A couple discovers that money can't buy happiness, but it can turn the cat into a statue.
What is Mrs Midas?
Translate the Cockney rhyming slang:
'a knee in the orchestra stalls'
What is "balls"?
Bad synopsis:
Someone who succeeded at career advancement by forgetting to disclose one tiny detail to HR.
What is Pope Joan?
Bad synopsis:
Empty-nest syndrome, but with crop failure.
What is Demeter?
Bad synopsis:
Someone who invents a textile-based method of ghosting potential dates.
What is Penelope?
Bad synopsis:
Dead wife reviews husband's personality. One star.
What is Eurydice?
What is this technique?
"dead, dead"
HINT: it's not repetition or caesura (we can do better!)
What is epizeuxis?
Bad synopsis:
Two women smash the glass ceiling with a crowbar.
What is The Kray Sisters?
Bad synopsis:
Woman sees red flag. Redesigns society.
What is Queen Herod?