What's that sound?
Words that imitate sounds, like "buzz" or "clang."
What is onomatopoeia?
An exaggerated statement for effect.
What is hyperbole?
Repetition of the same beginning sounds in nearby words.
What is alliteration?
Used to let others know where you got your information.
What is a citation?
A 3-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern, often focused on nature.
What is a haiku?
Repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the middle or end of words.
What is consonance?
A pair of contradictory words, like "jumbo shrimp."
What is an oxymoron?
Repetition of vowel sounds in close words.
What is assonance?
Punctuation that indicates words have been taken directly from a source.
What are quotation marks?
A grouped set of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in prose.
What is a stanza?
Use of harsh, jarring sounds to create a discordant effect.
What is cacophony?
A seemingly contradictory statement that reveals a truth, like “less is more.”
What is paradox?
A repeated line or group of lines, often at the end of a stanza.
What is a refrain?
Used in place of page numbers to cite specific words from a poem.
What are line numbers?
The rhythm of a poem, based on a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
Near-rhymes with similar but not exact sounds, like “worm” and “swarm.”
A part used to represent the whole, like “all hands on deck” meaning “all people on deck.”
Repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines or sentences.
What is anaphora?
A brief reference to something well-known, like a historical event or famous work.
What is allusion?
A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme, often about love or nature.
What is a sonnet?
Use of pleasant, harmonious sounds to create a soothing effect.
What is euphony?
Speaking directly to an absent person or object as if it could respond.
What is apostrophe?
Repeating a word or phrase at the end of successive lines or sentences.
What is epistrophe?
A detailed description of a work of art within a poem or prose.
What is ekphrasis?
Poetry without a fixed meter or rhyme scheme.