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The repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme?
100
A comparison between two different things using "like" or "as"
What is a Simile?
100
A word whose sound seems to resemble closely the sound it denotes.
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
An inanimate object or concept is given human characteristics or feelings
What is Personification?
100
A two-line of the same length that rhyme and complete one thought.
What is a Rhyming Couplet?
200
An implied comparison between things essentially unlike.
What is a Metaphor?
200
The use of exaggeration for effect.
What is Hyperbole?
200
A word or an image that signifies something other than what it represents, with multiple meanings and connotations.
What is Symbol?
200
The term refers to a single, related chunk of lines in poetry. It basically refers to one unit or group of lines, which forms one particular faction in poetry. The most basic of this literary device is usually 4 lines per group, with the simplest rhyme scheme “a-b-a-b” being followed.
What is a Stanza?
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The use figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.
What is Imagery?
300
The repetition of a speech sound (typically a consonant) at the beginning of a word in a sequence of nearby words.
What is Alliteration?
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The repetition of identical or similar vowels.
What is Assonance?
300
The repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, with a change in the intervening vowel; repetition of consonants, especially at the end of stressed syllables.
What is Consonance?
300
The feeling created by a poet's words and illustrations while narrating a poem.
What is Mood?
300
Ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.
What is Colloquial Language?
400
A direct address to an absent person or abstract entity.
What is Apostrophe?
400
A phrase, line, or lines repeated at intervals during a poem, especially at the close of stanzas.
What is Refrain?
400
Occurs when the sense of a line runs over to the succeeding line; Also called a run-on line.
What is Enjambment?
400
A narrative poem that often retells the story of an heroic deed, a legend or a recent event.
What is a Ballad?
400
A form of language which applies ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure (as in traditional poetry).
What is Prose?
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A system of describing what we can measure about the audible features of a poem. For example the number of syllables; the duration of syllables; the number of stressed syllables, or accents; and combinations of the above.
What is Meter?
500
A passing reference to a literary or historical person, place, or event, or to another literary work.
What is Allusion?
500
A term used to describe poetry that is a form of bound verse made up of three lines and a title.
What is Triplet?
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Is an open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.
What is Free Verse?
500
Is a four line stanza of any kind, rhymed, metered, or otherwise.
What is a Quatrain?