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100

A reference to something outside the text


what is allusion

100

Two rhyming lines of poetry


what is couplet
100

Rhyme within a line of poetry

 What is Internal rhyme

100

Comparison using “like” or “as” 

What is Simile

200

Deliberately suggesting two or more, often conflicting meanings within a work 

 what is ambiguity

200

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line of poetry

What is enjambment 

200

Two things placed close to each other in order to highlight their differences

what is juxtaposition 

200

Narrative voice of the poem, often NOT the author

What is Speaker

300

Attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object


What is anthropomorphism

300

Poetry that has no rhyme scheme or regular meter

What is free verse

300

Comparison without using “like” or “as”

what is Metaphor

300

The ‘paragraph’ of a poem

What is stanza

400

A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person an abstract idea or a thing

What is apostrophe


400

Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally

What is Hyperbole

400

Restating something already written

what is Repetition 

400

Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else

What is Symbol

500

A comma or period, usually in the middle of a line or verse to add emphasis on surrounding words


What is caesura

500

Contrast between the actual meaning of a word or phrase and the suggestion of another meaning

What is irony

500

A regular pattern of rhyme at the end of lines of poetry

What is rhyme scheme

500

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