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Question 1

Repetition of consonant sounds within a verse

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

Reference to a person, place or event (can be either direct or indirect)

Answer 2

Allusion

Question 3

A representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning

Answer 3

Allegory

Question 4

Repetition of the same phrase or word in following lines

Answer 4

Anaphora

Question 5

Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one

Answer 5

Anapest

Question 6

A comparison, usually something unfamiliar with something familiar

Answer 6

Analogy

Question 7

A word or phrase that can mean more than one thing

Answer 7

Ambiguity

Question 8

Repetition of vowel sounds within a tight group of words

Answer 8

Assonance

Question 9

Speaking directly to a person or thing, usually calling a name

Answer 9

Apostrophe

Question 10

Iambic parameter that does not rhyme

Answer 10

Blank verse

Question 11

A series of harsh, discordant sounds

Answer 11

Cacophony

Question 12

Deliberate pause, break or pivot within a line, in a text it might be marked by symbols

Answer 12

Caesura

Question 13

Two lines with the same meter or rhyme, usually building a complete thought together

Answer 13

Couplet

Question 14

Closely arranged things with strikingly different characteristics

Answer 14

Contrast

Question 15

The emotional, psychology or social overtones of a word

Answer 15

Connotation

Question 16

Repeated consonant sounds at the end of words placed near each other

Answer 16

Consonance

Question 17

A figure of speech that has been overused

Answer 17

Cliché

Question 18

Stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones

Answer 18

Dactyl

Question 19

The dictionary definition of a word, its simple meaning

Answer 19

Denotation

Question 20

Continuation of a sentence or a phrase from one line to the next

Answer 20

Enjambment

Question 21

First sentence after the title, touching upon the theme

Answer 21

Epigraph

Question 22

A series of musically pleasant sounds

Answer 22

Euphony

Question 23

An understatement, used to lessen the effect of a statement

Answer 23

Euphemism

Question 24

Unit of measurement in poetry

Answer 24

Foot

Question 25

Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

Answer 25

Iamb

Question 26

Pattern including five iambs, so 10 syllables

Answer 26

Iambic pentameter

Question 27

Rhythmic measure of a line

Answer 27

Meter

Question 28

A small-scale representation

Answer 28

Microcosm

Question 29

Words that sound like their meanings

Answer 29

Onomatopoeia

Question 30

A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other

Answer 30

Oxymoron

Question 31

A statement in which a seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth

Answer 31

Paradox

Question 32

Attributing human characteristics to an object, a thing or an animal

Answer 32

Personification

Question 33

Word play - a word has two completely different meanings

Answer 33

Pun

Question 34

A direct comparison or two unlike things using “like” or “as”

Answer 34

Simile

Question 35

An ordinary object, which, in its context, has a special meaning

Answer 35

Symbol

Question 36

The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect

Answer 36

Repetition

Question 37

Pattern of rhymes (AABB, ABBA, ABAB)

Answer 37

Rhyme scheme

Question 38

Beat or movement of a line

Answer 38

Rhythm

Question 39

Poem containing fourteen lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme

Answer 39

Sonnet

Question 40

Group of lines

Answer 40

Stanza

Question 41

Stressed syllable followed by unstressed syllable

Answer 41

Trochee