Name that term
The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines.
June--Moon
What is a rhyme?
A comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as if it were something else.
Does not use "like" or "as" for the comparison.
What is a metaphor?
"Pow!" "Bam!" "Zoom!" and "Buzz!" are all examples of this poetry term.
What is onomatopoeia?
Word order and sentence structure.
What is syntax?
If you were called to speak before the King, you would use this type of diction.
Ex. "Gimme that!" vs. "Would you be so kind as to pass the..."
What is formal/high diction?
Two successive rhyming lines.
What is a rhyming couplet?
A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison.
What is a simile?
The repeating of a consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line.
What is enjambment?
"Yo, sup" is an example of this type of diction.
What is informal/low diction?
"The art of selecting words"
What is diction?
Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions.
What is personification?
The repeating of identical vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
Repetition could get tiring for some, but not for this term, which uses the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work.
What is anaphora?
A rhyme from the popular children's book, "Green Eggs and Ham" has this rhyme scheme:
"I would not, could not, in the rain.
Not in the dark. Not on a train.
Not in a car. Not in a tree.
I do not like them, Sam, you see.
Note in a house. Not in a box.
Not with a mouse. Not with a fox.
I will not eat them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere!"
*Were looking for the letter code.
What is AABBCCDD?
A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic.
What is a stanza?
"The angry clouds marched across the sky" would be an example of this term.
What is personification?
A short but definite and audible pause used for effect within a line of poetry.
What is a caesura?
An exact rhyme (rather than rhyming vowel sounds, as with assonance) within a line of poetry:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."
What is an internal rhyme?
"Much to learn you still have" is how Yoda would say this sentence with incorrect syntax.
*Were looking for the correct syntax.
What is "You still have much to learn"?
What is syntax?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Shakespeare wrote this number sonnet that titles this category: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate. / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / and summer's lease hath all too short a date."
*We're looking for which number sonnet it is.
What is Sonnet 18?
This type of rhyme might trick you, because the words are spelled identically but pronounced differently.
Example: bear/fear, dough/cough
What is an eye rhyme?
The pattern of rhyme, usually indicated by assigning a letter of the alphabet to each rhyme at the end of a line of poetry.
What is a rhyme scheme?
In the phrase, “I war with the wind; with the waves I wrestle" the caesura is found between these two words.
What are "wind" and "with"?