This refers to the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a word.
What is alliteration?
100
This device occurs when one line or word ends in the same sound as the following line or word.
What is rhyme?
100
This type of poem has 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
100
Finish this line from the Highwayman: "Look for me by moonlight; watch for me by moonlight......"
What is "I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way."
100
A group of two lines that go together (usually rhyming).
What is a couplet?
200
This happens when a character speaks directly to an abstract character trait.
What is apostrophe?
200
This refers to the repetition of vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
200
The shape of this type of poem reinforces the meaning of the poem.
What is concrete poetry?
200
Finish this line from Sonnet 130: My mistresses' eyes..."
What is "are nothing like the sun."
200
This refers to the length of a line of poetry measured in syllables.
What is meter?
300
This device happens when a part represents the whole.
What is synechdoche?
300
This takes place when a word is the sound it makes.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
This type of poem is intended to teach the reader something.
What is didactic poetry?
300
Name this poem and finish the quote: "Come live with me...."
What is The Passionate Shepherd to His Love saying "and be my love" ?
300
This is the ninth line in an Italian sonnet.
What is a volta?
400
This refers to the repetition of consonant sounds, not at the beginning of a word.
What is consonance?
400
This device takes place when the same word or phrase is used again, and again....and again!
What is repetition?
400
This type of poem is intended to communicate emotion, and is often set to music.
What is lyric poetry?
400
Finish this quote from Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
What is "Thou art lovely and more temperate."
400
This refers to a hero who is brought low by a fatal flaw. ("Death" in John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud" could be seen as an example of this.)
What is a tragic hero?
500
This refers to a line or lines which are repeated in a ballad or song.
What is the refrain?
500
This occurs when the audience knows something that a character on stage does not.
What is dramatic irony?
500
This feature distinguishes an English sonnet from an Italian sonnet.
What is the rhyme scheme?
500
Finish this line from The Uninvited: "Always a third one's there....."
What is "where any two are walking."
500
This refers to a pattern of rhyming, (most common in Shakespeare), of ten syllables alternating between an unstressed syllable and a stressed syllable.