Sound Patterns
Words with a repeated vowel sound.
What is assonance?
A fourteen-line poem, often with something important happening in the final two lines.
What is a sonnet?
A comparison using "like" or "as".
A cluster of lines in a poem (like a paragraph).
What is a stanza?
What is consonance?
A concrete object (or objects); description that appeals to one of the five senses.
A comparison without the use of "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
Breaking a line without the use of ending punctuation, often in the middle of a phrase.
What is enjambment?
Name this sound pattern:
The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold”
Internal rhyme
An object that returns throughout a piece, gaining significance.
What is hyperbole?
Ending a line of poetry with a period.
What is an end-stop?
Name this kind of rhyme:
spoken / open
hill / full
Slant rhyme
A reference within a text to another text, or to a well-known person, place, or event.
What is an allusion?
What is personification?
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines.
What is anaphora?