Vocabulary I
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration.
In Christina Rossetti's poem "Who Has Seen the Wind," the poet uses what device to begin the firsts stanza?
What is a rhetorical question.
A line of poetry that ends on a stressed syllable.
What is a masculine ending.
It theme is that war is a disruption in normal human life.
What is "A Gray Sleeve" by Stephen Crane.
Mary had a little lamb/ Its fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went/ The lamb was sure to go
What is end rhyme.
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words.
What is assonance.
In Chavez's poem Rattlesnake, the snake is compared to a patterned bracelet called a coil of _?_.
What is cloisonne.
Description given to a line that ends on an unstressed syllable.
What is a feminine ending
Its theme is that life's moral dilemmas often require hard choices.
What is "Traveling Through the Dark."
When a snake slivers/It creates in me shivers
What is internal rhyme.
The repetition of terminal (or internal) consonant sounds.
What is consonance.
What two insects does Keats compare to illustrate his theme that poetry provides relief from life's hardships.
What are a grasshopper and a cricket.
A question asked, not to receive information, but to achieve an effect.
What is a rhetorical question.
In Updike's "Winter Ocean" poem, the author uses what comparison type to describe the defiance of the ocean.
What is personification.
The wood was very rough/ That he used to make the trough
What is an eye rhyme.
In poetry, a line's thought flows past the end of the verse line into the next line without a natural pause.
What is enjambment.
Who in a rather chaotic performance plays a piece identified as an "irrational anthem"?
What is a one-man band.
Two adjacent phrases or clauses that are parallel syntactically but contrasting in meaning.
What is antithesis.
In his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, Marin Luther King, Jr. uses what everyday objects to compare the freedoms and opportunities that had for too long been denied the African-American population in our country.
What are a check and a bank.
For the happy little bat/His cave was gloomy and sad
What is a slant rhyme.
A significant pause in the middle of a line of poetry.
What is a caesura.
From the poem "Foul Shot," the repetition of the phrase "And then/ And then / And then creates what type of atmosphere?
What is suspenseful.
The second of two parallel phrases,clauses, or sentences reversing the elements of the first, thereby inverting the parallel structure.
What is chiasmus.
The most common meter in English.
What is iambic pentameter.
The art of public speaking.
What is rhetoric.