English Test Flashcards
Alliteration
The repetition of constant sounds of the beginning of words
Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Allusion
A reference to a real of fictional person, event, place, or work of art
Example:
Flowers are her kryptonite
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text
Example: She seems to beam rays of sunshine with her eyes of green
Ballad
A story/narrative in poetic form
Consonance
The repetition of consonant sounds (not vowels) in a chunk of text
Example: Traffic figures, on July Fourth, to be tough.
Diction
The authors specific word choice
Example: Using colour instead of color
Enjambment
When one line continues to another without any pause (periods)
Free verse
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter
Hyperbole
The use of exaggeration for a specific event
Example: I slept like a rock last night.
Imagery
The pictures or images created by words
Example: I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan
Internal Rhyme
Rhyme that occurs without a line of poetry
Metaphor
Comparison between two things without using connecting words such as “Like” or “as”
Example: you threw me under the bus
Meter
Measured arrangement of beats in a poem, including the number of syllables per line
Example: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Onomatopoeia
The making and using of words in which the sound imitates the sense
Example: “boom” of a firework exploding, the “tick tock” of a clock
Personification
Giving inanimate objects, animals, or abstractions human qualities.
