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The repetition of initial sounds, like "burning bright".
What is alliteration?
Two lines of poetry that rhyme
What is a couplet?
A reference to a well-known story
What is an allusion?
The rhythm of a line of poetry
What is meter?
The poet who wrote The Tyger and The Lamb
Who is William Blake?
The repetition of vowel sounds, like "twice five miles"
What is assonance?
A phrase that is repeated for emphasis
What is an anaphora?
A story that represents a bigger idea, usually a moral or political one
What is an allegory?
A division of a line of poetry, usually contains two beats
What is a foot?
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
A repetition of consonant sounds in a phrase, like "marriage of true minds admit impediments"?
What is consonance?
A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet?
A short, incidental story, usually told informally
What is an anecdote?
A 2-syllable word whose second syllable is accented
What is an iamb?
Wrote "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
Who is William Shakespeare?
When words are rearranged, like, Milton's "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste"
What is an anastrophe?
Rearranging letters in a word to create a new word
What is an anagram?
When an inanimate object is given human characteristics
What is anthropomorphism?
A 2-syllable word whose first syllable is accented
What is a trochee?
Wrote "Prayer, the church's banquet, angel's age".
Who is George Herbert?
Discordant, unattractive sounds that come when certain words are put together
What is cacophony?
An ancient poetic form that is symmetrical
What is a chiasmus?
A typical or predictable character or story element
What is an archetype?
A line of poetry that has ten syllables, in which the accents follow a specific rhythm and depicts ordinary speech
What is iambic pentameter?
The national poet of Scotland
Who is Robert Burns?