Repeating vowel sounds in the middle of words. This device also uses sound to catch the reader’s attention. This is a subtle device for which you have to
listen carefully.
What is assonance?
100
A comparison stretched through an entire stanza or poem,
often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas.
What is an extended metaphor?
100
A phrase that can’t be translated literally into another language because the meaning isn’t the same as the words that make up the phrase.
What is an idiom?
100
A pair of single word opposites placed side by side for dramatic effect.
What is an oxymoron?
100
When two or more words rhyme within the same line of poetry
What is internal rhyme?
200
Sounds that are very pleasant to the ear.
What is euphony?
200
A comparison between a non-human item and a human so that the non-human item is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
200
A reference in one piece of literature to something from another piece of literature. They can also be references to person/events/places in history, religion, or myth.
What is allusion?
200
An apparently contradictory statement that, despite the
contradiction, has an element of truth in it.
What is a paradox?
200
The regular beat of the poem
What is meter?
300
the mingling together of discordant or clashing sounds.
What is dissonance?
300
This type of metaphor occurs when the significant part is used for the whole.
What is synecdoche?
300
A rhetorical figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an abstraction or inanimate object.
What is an apostrophe?
300
This achieves its effect through stating less than what is necessary.
What is understatement?
300
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
400
Repeating consonant sounds in the middle of words. This device also uses sound to catch the reader’s attention.
What is consonance?
400
A direct comparison between two dissimilar items.
What is a metaphor?
400
A phrase, line or expression that has been so overused, it is boring and commonplace.
What is a cliche?
400
The narrator’s attitude toward the subject of the poem and, sometimes, toward the reader of the poem.
What is tone?
400
A line of poetry that is ten syllables in length
What is iambic pentameter?
500
Sounds that are unpleasant and harsh to the ear.
What is cacophony?
500
This is a type of metaphor in which a reference point is substituted for the thing to which reference is actually made.
What is metonymy?
500
Substituting a pleasant or polite word or phrase for an unpleasant reality.
What is a euphemism?
500
The personality of the writing, the specific characteristics that make the writing unique.
What is voice?
500
No regular pattern of rhythm, rhyme, or line length