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