Repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words.
What is alliteration?
100
The length and placement of lines and the way they are grouped. Quatrains and couplets are examples of types of stanzas.
What is the stanza?
100
This color represents purity, innocence, peace, unsullied, enlightenment, life
What is white?
100
An exact match of sounds in a rhyme.
What is perfect rhyme?
100
A rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables organized into feet or patterns.
What is meter?
200
Use of words or phrases to create sensory experiences for readers. Sensory appeals to what you can touch, taste, smell, hear, and see.
What is imagery?
200
A repetition of final sounds in two or more words
What is rhyme?
200
This color represents blood, sacrifice, anger, power, violent passion
What is red?
200
A rhyme that comes at the end of a line of verse. Most rhyming poetry uses end rhymes.
What is end rhyme?
200
A foot which starts with an unaccented and ends with an accented (stressed) syllable. It is the
most common meter in the English language and naturally falls into everyday conversation. An
example is "To be or not to be" (the accented syllables are italicized) from Shakespeare's
Hamlet
What is iambic?
300
A literary technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis.
What is repetition?
300
An independent narrator with characteristics that separate her or him from the author. Personas are often the most adopted type of narration in literary works.
What is persona?
300
Number of completion. Invokes the holy trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; mind, body, spirit; birth, life, death.
What is 3?
300
An imperfect rhyme, also called oblique rhyme or off rhyme, in which the sounds are similar but not exactly the same, as between "port" and "heart." (Dr. Hill refers to these as ½ rhymes.) Modern poets often use slant rhyme as a subtler alternative to perfect rhyme.
What is slant rhyme?
300
one foot
What is monometer?
400
In rhetoric, this is the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive poetic lines, prose sentences, clauses, or paragraphs.
What is anaphora?
400
A poem that tells a story.
What is narrative poem?
400
Number of completion. Perfection. The most potent of all symbolic numbers signifying the union of three and four, the completion of a cycle. Referenced from the book of Genesis
What is 7?
400
A grouping of three lines, often bearing a single rhyme
What is tercet?
400
five feet
What is pentameter?
500
Afigure of speechin which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side; a compressed paradox.
What is oxymoron?
500
Group of four (4) rhymed lines.
What is quatrain?
500
The season that represents being without life/death/cold; barren
What is winter?
500
The rhyme scheme of the following:
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell
From Shakespeare's Sonnet # 71