Literary Techniques

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of same letter usually at a consonant at the begging of words

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Repetition of identical vowel, in closely connected words

Question 3

Caesura

Answer 3

Break or pause in the middle of a line

Question 4

Contrast

Answer 4

Two very opposing/ different ideas

Question 5

Enjambent

Answer 5

Sentence runs from one line to next no punctuation

Question 6

End-stopped line

Answer 6

Line of poetry ends with .

Question 7

Hyperbole

Answer 7

Deliberate and impossible exaggeration

Question 8

Metaphor

Answer 8

Direct comparison that isn’t true

Question 9

Onomatopoeia

Answer 9

Word the ay echoes its meaning in sound

Question 10

Personification

Answer 10

Object/idea described as if alive

Question 11

Repetition

Answer 11

Same phrase repeated

Question 12

Rhyme

Answer 12

Two or more lines end on same sound

Question 13

Internal rhyme

Answer 13

Same sound repeated at end of words

Question 14

Slant rhyme

Answer 14

Rhyme with simular but not identical sound s

Question 15

Simile

Answer 15

Direct comparison not true

Question 16

Sibilance

Answer 16

Repetition of s,z,sh sounds

Question 17

Symbol

Answer 17

Sign,shape,object used to represent smth else

Question 18

Triad

Answer 18

Arrangement of words or phrases in group of 3.