Sound
repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
Unstressed stressed
What is iambic?
What is a metaphor?
a balancing of words and phrases
What is parallelism?
two beats per line
What is dimeter?
Repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
What is trochaic?
giving human characteristics to inanimate objects or ideas
What id personification?
Repetition at the beginning of lines or sentences
What is anaphora?
three beats per line
What is trimeter?
Words that make sound
What is onomatopoeia?
unstressed unstressed stressed
what is anapestic?
a metaphor that is part to whole
What is synechdoche?
XY YX construction
What is chiasmus?
five beats per line
What is pentameter?
Repetition of consonant sounds in the middle and ends of words
What is consonance?
stressed unstressed unstressed
What is dactylic?
an understantement with a negative that means the opposite
What is litotes?
Repetition at the ends of lines or sentences
What is epistrophe?
four beats per line
What is tetrameter?
harsh sound
What is cacophony?
stressed stressed
What is spondaic?
a word or phrase stands for something closely related to it
What is metonymy?
inversion
What is anastrophe?
Six beats per line
What is hexameter?