a rhyme occurring within the line, as in the poem, The Matador:
His childhood fraught with lessons taught by want and misery
What is internal rhyme
100
the regular or progressive pattern of recurrent accents in the flow of a poem
What is rhythm
100
A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero
What is an epic
100
A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means; the opposite of exaggeration
What is understatement
200
The rhythmically significant stress in the articulation of words, giving some syllables more relative prominence than others
What is accent
200
The quality of richness or variety of sounds in poetic texture
What is resonance
200
A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
What is a ballad
200
A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
What is sonnett
200
The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work,
What is tone
300
the repetition of the initial sounds (usually consonants) of stressed syllables in neighboring words
What is alliteration
300
the formation or use of words which imitate sounds
What is ONOMATOPOEIA
300
An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
What is a character
300
A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form
What is an ode
300
The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
What is syntax
400
The relatively close juxtaposition of the same or similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage, thus a vowel rhyme, as in the words, date and fade.
What is assonance
400
A measure of rhythmic quantity
What is meter
400
A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern.
What is closed form
400
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem
400
The way an author chooses words, arranges them in sentences or in lines of dialogue or verse, and develops ideas and actions with description, imagery, and other literary techniques
What is style
500
A pleasing combination of sounds; sounds in agreement with tone.
What is consonance
500
physical object used in drama
What is a prop
500
A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work
What is conflict
500
A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.
What is a couplet
500
An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.