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Sound devices
Language
Figures of Speech
Poetic Forms
Hodgepodge
100
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
100
Regional variations of speech.
What is dialect?
100
A brief paradox.
What is an oxymoron?
100
The shift or "turn" in a Petrarchan sonnet.
What is a volta?
100
a mid-line pause
What is a caesura?
200
Literally means "bad sound."
What is cacophony?
200
Definition of a paradox.
What is an apparent contradiction?
200
The seven types of imagery.
What are visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, kinetic, and organic?
200
A form characterized by quatrains, a regular pattern of rhythm and rhyme, and a dramatic story.
What is a ballad?
200
a long narrative poem about a hero
What is an epic?
300
The type of rhyme illustrated by the words "stove" and "prove"; I'm not looking for slant rhyme here.
What is eye or sight rhyme?
300
"This poetry blitz has lasted 200 years!!"
What is hyperbole. (Poetry blitz has lasted only 100 years....)
300
Referring to the whole movie industry with the word "Hollywood."
What is metonymy?
300
Presents an idealized vision of country life.
What is a pastoral?
300
The type of point of view which includes no interiority.
What is 3rd person dramatic or objective.
400
"Deep green sea" includes this sound device.
What is assonance?
400
Language describing qualities that are theoretical rather than exact and particular conditions.
What is abstract diction?
400
saying that a "draught of wine" tastes of "sunburst mirth" (Keats) is an example
What is synesthesia?
400
The form of the poem takes on the shape of the subject.
What is concrete poetry?
400
A poem of lamentation about a death.
What is an elegy?
500
"Trapped" and "clipped" illustrate this device.
What is consonance?
500
Words or phrases characteristic of a particular profession, trade, or pursuit.
What is jargon?
500
Direct address of an absent or dead person or of an inanimate object (time, sleep, the moon, etc.).
What is apostrophe?
500
A 19-line poem which contains only two rhyming sounds.
What is a villanelle?
500
A stanza form comprised of tercets with an interwoven rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, etc.)
What is terza rima?