Key Terms

Question 1

Allegorical

Answer 1

Contains a moral or hidden message.

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

The same letter or sound at the beginning of words.

Question 3

Apostrophe

Answer 3

Addresses someone who isn’t there.

Question 4

Assonance

Answer 4

Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words.

Question 5

Asyndeton

Answer 5

List with the absence of a conjunction.

Question 6

Caesura

Answer 6

Break between words.

Question 7

Cavalier

Answer 7

Roguish, lacks empathy for feelings.

Question 8

Chiasmus

Answer 8

Words repeated in reverse order.

Question 9

Consonance

Answer 9

Similar sounding consonants.

Question 10

Diacope

Answer 10

Repetition with a word in between.

Question 11

Dialogic

Answer 11

Contains dialogue.

Question 12

Epizeuxis

Answer 12

Direct repetition, used for emphasis.

Question 13

Metaphysical Conceit

Answer 13

Far-fetched comparison.

Question 14

Metonymy

Answer 14

Substitution of.

Question 15

Mimetic

Answer 15

Mimics something.

Question 16

Necessary Enjambment

Answer 16

Need to see the next line for it to make sense.

Question 17

Oxymoron

Answer 17

Direct contradictions.

Question 18

Parallelisms

Answer 18

Using similar words or phrases to emphasise a point.

Question 19

Petrarchan Sonnet

Answer 19

14 line and a flexible rhyme scheme.

Question 20

Refrain

Answer 20

Repeated word or line.

Question 21

Revelatory Enjambment

Answer 21

Used to change the meaning of a previous line, or reveal something new.

Question 22

Trochee

Answer 22

Stressed syllable alongside an unstressed syllable.