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"The monstrous anger of the guns." - What is this from Anthem For Doomed Youth?
Personification
"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them." - This is a more specific form of repetition... what is it?
Anaphora
"Volleyed and thundered." - What technique?
Onomatopoeia
"Jaws of death" - What technique?
Personification / Metaphor
A poem that spells out a word
Acrostic
5 lines, 7 lines, 5 lines
Haiku
A concise, pointed, epigrammatic statement that reveals a truth or principle.
Aphorism
The use of pleasant sounding words OR The use of words to evoke a pleasant image
Euphony
Appealing to one of the five senses
Sensory Imagery
Juxtaposing two opposite words to show an emphatic and dramatic contradiction
Oxymoron
a passing reference to a literary or historical person, place, or event, or to another literary work
Allusion
The trees whistled as the wind blew from the south
Personification
The use of exaggeration for effect
Hyperbole
a word or an image that signifies something other than what it represents, with multiple meanings and connotations
Symbol
An implied comparison between things essentially unlike
Metaphor
A rhetorical figure in which two ideas are directly opposed
Antithesis
It was a bittersweet moment.
Antithesis
An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression.
Idiom
Raining Cats and Dogs
Idiom
It’s not cold on this 40 degree day.
Understatement
A pause in a line of poetry dictated not by meter but by natural speaking rhythm.
Caesura
The repetition of sounds at the end of words
Repetition
Moo, purr, quack, buzz, hiss, sizzle
Onomatopoeia
The repetition of final consonant sound or sounds following different vowel sounds in proximate words
Consonance
The repetition of identical or similar vowels
Assonance
What is this: Sad Slow Snail
Alliteration
Define alliteration
the repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word in a sequence of nearby words
How many lines in a sonnet?
14
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