Sound
The repetition of the same vowel sound
What is assonance?
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
What is personification?
This musical is about a vengeful barber in London, avenging his wife's death by killing and cannibalizing his barbershop customers
What is Sweeney Todd?
A rhyme involving one word in the middle of a line, and another at the end of the line, or in the middle of the next.
What is internal rhyme?
This musical moves backward chronologically... from the characters' broken, messed-up, middle-aged lives back to them meeting as sweet innocent high schoolers
What is Merrily We Roll Along?
The repetition of the same sound at the beginnings of words
What is alliteration?
A technique similar to juxtaposition - bringing two contrasting ideas/images together using parallel grammatical structure (example: "To err is human, to forgive is divine")
What is antithesis?
This musical is about two warring gangs in 1960s New York - a Puerto Rican gang and a white gang - and what happens when two of their members fall in love.
What is West Side Story?
Repetition of one or more phrases at intervals, usually at the end of a stanza; often takes the form of a chorus
What is refrain?
This musical is a farce comedy about an ancient Roman slave trying to win his freedom.
What is A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum?
The repetition of the same word at the beginnings of phrases
What is anaphora?
When a poet directly talks TO someone (or something) that cannot respond (such as God, the concept of liberty, etc)
What is apostrophe?
This musical is a multiverse of fairy tale characters who learn that life is more complicated than a simple happy-ever-after.
What is Into the Woods?
Repetition of the same consonant sound
What is consonance?
This musical is about 5 different married couples trying to convince their 35-year-old unmarried friend to get married.
What is Company?
A rhyme that is almost exact, but not quite (example: "crate" and "braid")
What is slant rhyme?
Naming part of an object to refer to the whole thing (example: "The captain commands 100 sails" [100 ships])
What is synecdoche?
This musical is about the artist who painted this painting:
What is Sunday in the Park with George?
Repetition of the same word at the end of each clause
What is epiphora?
This musical is about a girl whose mom pressured her to be a child star - who then grew up to be a world-famous stripper.
What is Gypsy?
A rhyme that includes two syllables (example: "noodle" and "poodle")
What is feminine rhyme?
Substituting the name of something with another word closely associated with that thing (example: using "Silicon Valley" to refer to the American technological industry)
What is metonymy?
This musical is about the westernization of Japan.
What is Pacific Overtures?
A rhyme where one syllable is stressed and the other is not (mat/combat, frog/dialogue)
What is light rhyme?
This musical is about a bunch of former pageant-girls who are now elderly women, reminiscing on how their lives have changed since their days in the pageant.
What is Follies?