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What is alliteration? Give an example of it.
Alliteration can be defined as a series of words, occurring close together in the phrases or lines of poetry, that have the same first consonant sound.
What is assonance? Give an example of it.
Assonance is the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes.
What is imagery?
Imagery is the author's use of description and vivid language, deepening the reader's understanding of the work, by appealing to the senses.
What kinds of imagery are there? Name three of them.
Visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory, and tactile.
What is a metaphor? Give an example of it.
Metaphor is a common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object.
What in an onomatopoeia? Give an example or it.
Onomatopoeia is the formation of a word which describes its sound.
What is personification? Describe something using this technique.
Personification is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects, are given human qualities.
What is a simile? How is it different than a metaphor?
Simile is common poetic device. The subject of the poem is described by comparing it to another object or subject, using 'as' or 'like.'
What is a stanza?
Stanzas can be defined as groups of lines. Poems can be broken up into stanzas which usually share common features such as rhyme and rhythm.
What is repetition used for in a poem?
Repetition either of a word or a phrase is used in poetry for emphasis.
What is a couplet?
A couplet is a pair of lines in a poem which have both the same rhythm (meter) and that rhyme.
What is meter in poetry?
It is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in a verse. Here, the number os syllables and the pattern of emphasis on those syllables come together.
What is an allusion?
It is an expression meant to call another text, a person, event, or thing to mind without mentioning it explicitly.
What is a slant rhyme?
This is a type of rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical, sounds. For example: "worm" and "swarm"
What is an internal rhyme?
This is a rhyme where multiple words in the same line rhyme. For example: "I went to town to buy a gown, / I took the car since it was far."
What is a sonnet?
A poem of 14 lines with 10 syllables per line.
